1. Family: Oto-Manguean
  2. Genus: Chinantecan

Chinantec (Quiotepec)

WALS coordinates: 17° 34′ 48.00″ N, 96° 40′ 12.00″ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chinantec
Routledge:
  • Chinanteko
Other:
  • Quiotepec Chinantec,
  • Highland Chinanteco,
  • Chinantec, Highland, Quiotepec dialect
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately large
Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants Glottalized resonants only
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
Vowel Nasalization Contrast present
Front Rounded Vowels High and mid
Syllable Structure Simple
Tone Complex tone system
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants 'Th' sounds
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Equal prefixing and suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality No plural
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Mixed type
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VSO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Mixed
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective No dominant order
Position of Polar Question Particles Initial
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions Question particle