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Amuzgo-Mixtecan tones now, more comprehensive and reliable data are necessary to reconstruct the Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan tone systems. In this presentation, I will briefly review the previous studies of Amuzgo-Mixtecan tones and discuss what kind of information is further necessary to make more reliable
3.0. The linguistic evaluation of a set provides the framework for its cultural evaluation, but however strong it may be linguistically this does not provide proof that the specific aspect of Proto-Mixtecan or Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan life it represents actually existed on the horizon.
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Amuzgo’s place in the language family’s Eastern Oto-Manguean branch is uncertain, but it clearly shares many similarities through inheritance or contact with the Mixtecan languages, another focus of ELA research.
In Amuzgo. Their language is related to that of the Mixtec, their neighbours to the north and west. Although many Amuzgo can speak Spanish, the majority (about 65 percent) speak only Amuzgo.
Studies of Amuzgo-Mixtecan Tones . Kosuke Matsukawa . National Museum of Ethnology, Japan . Email: kosuke222@hotmail.com . December 7, 2014 . State of the Art of Mesoamerican Linguistics . at Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Amuzgo is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in the Costa Chica region of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca by about 44,000 speakers. Like other Oto-Manguean languages, Amuzgo is a tonal language. From syntactical point of view Amuzgo can be considered as an active language.
A preliminary analysis of a selected portion of reconstructed Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan vocabularies. Based on this analysis, a rough ethnographic sketch of the life of speakers of these languages is obtained.
