| Cuicatec | |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Oaxaca |
| Ethnicity: | Cuicatec |
| Date: | 2020 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Mixtecan |
| Script: | Latin |
| Lc1: | cux |
| Ld1: | Tepeuxila |
| Lc2: | cut |
| Ld2: | Teutila |
| Glotto: | cuic1234 |
| Glottorefname: | Cuicatec |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Map: | Cuicatec map.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Extent of the Cuicatec language: prior to contact (olive green) and current (red) |
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.[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.[3] The name Cuicatec is a Nahuatl exonym, from in Nahuatl languages pronounced as /ˈkʷika/ 'song' pronounced as /[ˈteka]/ 'inhabitant of place of'.[4]
Cuicatec-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEOJN, based in San Lucas Ojitlán, Oaxaca.
The Santa Maria Papalo dialect contains six vowel sounds both oral and nasal:
| Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |
| pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | |||||||
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||