| Highland Chinantec | |
| Nativename: | Jmii’ |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Oaxaca Highlands |
| Ethnicity: | Chinantecs |
| Speakers: | 10,000 |
| Date: | 1990–1998 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Mangue |
| Fam2: | Western Oto-Mangue |
| Fam3: | Oto-Pame–Chinantecan |
| Fam4: | Chinantec |
| Dia1: | Quiotepec Chinantec |
| Dia2: | Comaltepec Chinantec |
| Dia3: | Yolox Chinantec |
| Lc1: | chq |
| Ld1: | Quiotepec Chinantec |
| Lc2: | cco |
| Ld2: | Comaltepec Chinantec |
| Glotto: | chin1488 |
| Glottorefname: | Chinantec Group V |
| Elp: | 9874 |
| Elpname: | Sierra Chinantec |
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.
The following are sounds of Comaltepec Chinantec:[1] [2]
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop &<br>Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| (pronounced as /ink/) | ||||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants
2. Voiced stops are frequently prenasalised
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ |
The following are sounds of Quiotepec Chinantec:[3]
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
1. /pronounced as /ink// is heard as a glide [{{IPAlink|w}}] after /pronounced as /ink//.
| Front | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |