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

Mazatec (Chiquihuitlán)

WALS coordinates: 17° 45′ N, 96° 55′ W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mazatec
Routledge:
  • Masateko
Other:
  • Mazatec (Chiquihuitlan)
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In fricatives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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38A Indefinite Articles Indefinite word same as 'one' Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes Nominal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Different Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5.5 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 9-10 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [V-Neg] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes [V-Neg] Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb MorphNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages [V-Neg] & VS &VO Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative No preverbal neg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object Suffix&NoDoubleNeg Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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