Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family. The 1990 census[2] reported 17 speakers of the language in southern Chiapas out of an ethnic population of 32, but later investigations failed to find any speakers.[3]

Chiapanec
Native toMexico
RegionChiapas
Extinctca. 2000?[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3cip
Glottologchia1262
ELPChiapanec

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.

Phonology edit

Consonants edit

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p t k ʔ
prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ
Fricative s ʃ h
Nasal m n ɲ̊ ɲ
Flap ɾ
Glide w l j

Vowels edit

Four vowels are noted as /i, a, o, u/.

Notes edit

Bibliography edit

  • Aguilar Panagos, Mario. (1992) "Diccionario de la lengua chiapaneca". México: Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas.
  • Aguilar Penagos, Mario. (2012) "Gramática de la lengua chiapaneca". México: FONCA-CONACULTA 21.
  • del Carpio-Penagos, Carlos Uriel, and Juan Ramón Álvarez-Vázquez. (2014) "Vocabulary of the Chiapaneca Language from the Late 18th Century."Revista LiminaR. Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos 12.1.