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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
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
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.
CVCV approach, enabled by the assumption that the Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan *CVCV lexical root survives today in XA as CCVV(ʔ), the maximal lexical root. The monosyllabic economy that sets XA apart from its sister languages influences strategies that block against morphophonological change triggered by inflection, or that enhance contrast
- Bien Dobui
- 2021
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.
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. The name Amuzgo is claimed to be a Nahuatl exonym but its meaning is shrouded in controversy; multiple proposals ...
The Mixtecan languages constitute a branch of the Otomanguean language family of Mexico. They include the Trique (or Triqui) languages, spoken by about 24,500 people; Cuicatec, spoken by about 15,000 people; and the large expanse of Mixtec languages, spoken by about 511,000 people. [2] The relationship between Trique, Cuicatec, and Mixtec, is ...
