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Triqui, Chicahuaxtla

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3trs

Population  6,000 (1982).
Region  Oaxaca, Tlaxiaco District, San José Xochistlán; Putla District, Santo Domingo del Estado.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 225
Alternate names   Chicahuaxtla Trique, Triqui de San Andrés Chicahuaxtla
Dialects  Laguna. 74% intelligibility with Copala [trc]. Lexical similarity: 100% with Laguna dialect, 87% with Itunyoso [trq], 78% with Sabana.
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Trique
Language development  Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1968.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GOOD, Claude, compiler. 1978. Diccionario triqui de Chichahuaxtla: Triqui-castellano, castellano-triqui.  Available online

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1977. "Phonetic vs. phonemic correspondence in two Trique dialects."  Available online

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1952. "Five phonemic pitch levels in Trique."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1953. "A tone orthography for Trique."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1955. "Rejoinder to Hamp’s ‘Componential restatement of syllable structure in Trique’."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1957. Proto-Mixtecan.

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1959. "Trique tone morphemics."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1966. "The plumed serpent rescues a man."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1966. "Trique clause and sentence: a study in contrast, variation and distribution."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1970. An experiment in testing the reading of Trique without indication of tone.

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1991. "Some Trique grammatico-lexical characteristics: a world view?."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 2004. "Spanish loans in Chicahuaxtla Trique."

LONGACRE, Robert E., researcher. 2011. 2 Trique Texts trs.

LONGACRE, Robert E.; MILLON, René, authors. 1961. "Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan vocabularies: a preliminary cultural analysis."