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Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec, or simply Nieves Mixtec, is a variety of Mixtec spoken in the municipality of Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca, Mexico and in San Diego County, California, United States.

Classification

INALI classifies Nieves Mixtec as part of Upper Western Mixtec (Spanish: mixteco del oeste alto). J. Kathryn Josserand classified it as part of Southern Baja Mixtec. SIL grouped Nieves Mixtec with Silacayoapan Mixtec, and found that speakers of Nieves Mixtec could understand 94% of Silacayoapan Mixtec, 75% of Juxtlahuaca Mixtec, 56% of Mixtepec Mixtec and 46% of Cacaloxtepec Mixtec.

Phonology

Consonants

• The voiceless stops /t tʲ k/ lenite lenite in prosodically weak positions: /t/ becomes or , /tʲ/ becomes , and /k/ becomes or .

• /x/ may be realized as .

• /v/ may be realized as or .

• /ʒ/ may be realized as .

• /ᵐb/ and /ᵑɡ/ are found in only a small number of words, including loanwords.

• /ɲ/ may be realized as in unstressed syllables.

• Spanish consonants such as /p f b d ɾ r/ are found in loanwords. /r/ is also found in two animal names.

Vowels

Notes

1. Caballero & Carroll 2013, p. 1.
2. ^ Carroll 2015, p. 116.
3. INALI n.d.
4. Josserand 1983, p. 470.
5. Egland, Bartholomew & Cruz Ramos 1983, p. 26.
6. Egland, Bartholomew & Cruz Ramos 1983, p. 36.
7. ^ Carroll 2015, p. 38.
8. Carroll 2015, p. 40.
9. ^ Carroll 2015, p. 43.
10. Carroll 2015, pp. 38, 41.
11. Carroll 2015, p. 44.
12. Carroll 2015, pp. 44–45.
13. Carroll 2015, p. 50.

References

• Bowen, Michael Andrew Villas-Boas (2010). Narrative strategies in Ixpantepec-Nieves Mixtec (M.A. thesis). San Diego State University.
• Caballero, Gabriela; Carroll, Lucien (2013). Procesos de adaptación prosódica en préstamos del español al rarámuri (tarahumara) de Choguita y al tu'un savi (mixteco) de Ixpantepec Nieves [Processes of prosodic adaptation of Spanish loanwords into Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) and Ixpantepec Nieves Tu’un Savi (Mixtec)] (PDF). Sixth Conference on the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (in Spanish). The University of Texas at Austin.
• Caponigro, Ivano; Torrence, Harold; Cisneros, Carlos (January 2013). "Free relative clauses in two Mixtec languages". International Journal of American Linguistics. 79 (1): 61–96. doi:10.1086/668608. hdl:1808/14686.
• Carroll, Lucien Serapio (2015). Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, San Diego.
• Egland, Steven; Bartholomew, Doris; Cruz Ramos, Saúl (1983) . La Inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Restultados de algunos sondeos [Interdialectical Intelligibility in Mexico: Some Survey Results] (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
• "Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales" [Catalog of the National Indigenous Languages] (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas. n.d. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
• Josserand, Judy Kathryn (1983). Mixtec Dialect History (Ph.D. thesis). Tulane University.
• Perry, Elizabeth (2009). "The Declining Use of the Mixtec Language Among Oaxacan Migrants and Stay-at-Homes: The Persistence of Memory, Discrimination, and Social Hierarchies of Power" (PDF). The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

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