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In Amuzgo-Mixtecan languages except Triqui languages, phonemic tones may occur on any syllable. •
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.
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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 reconstruction of the Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan tone systems.
Download scientific diagram | Mixtecan language groups and their possible position within the proposed Amuzgo-Mixtecan family from publication: Tone in Acatlán Mixtec Nouns | Varieties of...
While this possibility is remote, it seems to have occurred in several of the sets which reconstruct in Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan. For example, one set, linguistically evaluated as solid, reconstructs in Proto-Mixtecan with the meaning bell or perhaps metal .
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.
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.
