| Chiapanec | |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Chiapas |
| Extinct: | ca. 2000? |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Mangue |
| Fam2: | Manguean |
| Iso3: | cip |
| Glotto: | chia1262 |
| Glottorefname: | Chiapanec |
Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family believed to have been spoken by the Chiapanec people. The 1990 census[1] reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers.[2]
There are, however, a number of written sources on the language. Vocabularies and grammars based on these materials include Aguilar Penagos (2012) and Carpio-Penagos and Álvarez-Vázquez (2014).
It is closely related to Mangue.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| prenasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Glide | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
Four vowels are noted as /i, a, o, u/.