Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec | |
Nativename: | Tu̱ʼun ndáʼví |
Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[ˌtṵ̃˩ũ˧ˈⁿdaʔ˥vi˥]/ |
Region: | Ixpantepec Nieves, Oaxaca, Mexico and San Diego County, California, United States |
Ethnicity: | Mixtecs |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
Fam2: | Mixtecan |
Fam3: | Mixtec |
Script: | Latin |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Notice: | IPA |
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.
INALI classifies Nieves Mixtec as part of Upper Western Mixtec (Spanish; Castilian: 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.
Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||||
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Apico- alveolar | Lamino- alveolar | Post- alveolar | Labialized | ||||
Voiceless | Stop | t | tʲ | tʃ | k | kʷ | |
Continuant | s | ʃ | x | ||||
Voiced | Stop | (ᵐb) | ⁿd | ⁿdʲ | (ᵑɡ) | ||
Continuant | v | l | ʒ | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ |
Oral | Nasal | |||||
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Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
+High | ii | uu | ĩĩ | ũũ | ||
i | u | ĩ | ũ | |||
−High | ee | aa | oo | ẽẽ | ãã | |
e | a | o | ã |