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Cuicatec language
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Cuicatec is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. It belongs to the Mixtecan branch together with the Mixtec languages and the Trique language.cite-ref-2[2] The Ethnologue lists two major dialects of Cuicatec: Tepeuxila Cuicatec and Teutila Cuicatec. Like other Oto-Manguean languages, Cuicatec is tonal.

The Cuicatecs are closely related to the Mixtecs. They inhabit two towns: Teutila and Tepeuxila in western Oaxaca. According to the 2000 census, they number around 23,000, of whom an estimated 65% are speakers of the language.cite-ref-3[3] The name Cuicatec is a Nahuatl exonym, from [ˈkʷika] 'song' [ˈteka] 'inhabitant of place of'.cite-ref-4[4]

Cuicatec-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEOJN, based in San Lucas Ojitlán, Oaxaca.

Contents

Vowels
Notes

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Phonology

Vowels

The Santa Maria Papalo dialect contains six vowel sounds both oral and nasal:

| | Front | Back |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ |
| Mid | e ẽ | ɔ ɔ̃ |
| Open | a ã | a ã |

Consonants

| | | Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Velar | Glottal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | | Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | plain | lab. | Glottal |
| Plosive | Plosive | p | t | | k | kʷ | ʔ |
| Affricate | Affricate | | | tʃ | | | |
| Fricative | voiceless | | s | | | | |
| Fricative | voiced | β | ð | | ɣ | ɣʷ | |
| Nasal | Nasal | m | n | | | | |
| Rhotic | Rhotic | | ɾ , r | | | | |
| Approximant | Approximant | | l | j | | w | |

Allophones of the following sounds /β ð ɣ n j t tʃ/ include [b d ɡ~x ŋ j̈ θ ʃ], respectively.

Notes

cite-note-inegi2020-11. Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
cite-note-22. The proposal to group Mixtec, Trique and Cuicatec into a single family (none more closely related to one than to the other) was made by Longacre (1957) with convincing evidence.
cite-note-33. Website of the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=660 Archived 2019-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 28 July 2008.
cite-note-44. Campbell 1997:402)

Bibliography

• Anderson, E. Richard & Hilario Concepción R. 1983. Diccionario cuicateco: español-cuicateco, cuicateco-español. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
• Bradley, David P. 1991. A preliminary syntactic sketch of Concepción Pápalo Cuicatec. In C. Henry Bradley and Barbara E. Hollenbach (eds.), Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 3, pp. 409–506. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Campbell, Lyle. 1997. American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Needham, Doris & Marjorie Davis. 1946. Cuicateco phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics 12: 139-46.
• Prewett, Joanne and Omer E. 1974. The Segmental Phonology of Cuicateco of Santa María Pápalo Oaxaca, Mexico, pp. 53-92