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Highland Chinantec is a Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in Comaltepec, San Juan Quiotepec, and surrounding towns in northern Oaxaca. It has a complex system of tone and vowel length compared to other Chinantec languages. The two principal varieties, Quiotepec and Comaltepec, have marginal mutual intelligibility. Yolox Chinantec is somewhat less divergent.

Phonology

Comaltepec

The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec:

1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants

2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised

Tones

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Quiotepec

The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:

1. /β/ is heard as a glide after /k/.

Tones

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References

1. Quiotepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Comaltepec Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Anderson, Judi Lynn, Martínez, Isaac H., & Pace, Wanda. (1990). Comaltepec Chinantec Tone. In William R. Merrifield & Calvin R. Rensch (Eds.), Syllables, Tone, and Verb Paradigms: Studies in Chinantec Languages 4 (pp. 3-20). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
3. Silverman, Daniel. (1997). Tone Sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. Language, 73(3), 473-492.
4. Robbins, Frank E. (1961). Quiotepec Chinantec Syllable Patterning. International Journal of American Linguistics, 27(3), 237-250.

• Chinantec languages