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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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Nasal segments and phonological processes of nasalization are common in Otomanguean languages.1 In addition, analyses of Amuzgo and Mixtecan languages, and Jalapa Mazatec establish prenasalized stops or complex nasals as phonemic.2 The phonemic system of the Amuzgo spoken in the town of Xochistlahuaca (Guerrero State, southwest Mexico) has thus ...
- Bien Dobui
- 2021
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 a member of the Oto-Manguean language family, a highly diverse group of languages spoken by several million people across southern Mexico and formerly in parts of Central America. Many Oto-Manguean languages have disappeared or are spoken today only by very small numbers of people. Amuzgo’s place in the language family’s Eastern ...
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 ...
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen. Other articles where Amuzgo language is discussed: 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.
