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Sochiapam is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 66% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 75%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction).[2]

Sochiapam
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Ethnicity	6,300 Chinantecs (no date)[1]
Native speakers	3,600 (2000)[2]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Sochiapam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cso
Glottolog	soch1239
ELP	Western Chinantec

Sochiapam has seven tones: high, mid, low, high falling, mid falling, mid rising, low rising.[3]

Like other Chinantec and Mazatec languages, Sochiapam Chinantec is noted for having whistled speech (produced only by men, but understood by all). More unusually, it has also been reported to have a rare marked absolutive case system.^{[citation needed]}

Phonology

This article needs to be updated. (December 2020)

The following are sounds of Sochiapan Chinantec:[4]

Consonants

		Labial	Interdental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Velar	Laryngeal
Nasal		m		n		ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p		t		k	ʔ
	voiced					(ɡ)
Affricate				ts
Fricative	voiceless	(ɸ)	θ	s			h
	voiced	β	ð		ʐ
Liquid	lateral			l
	rhotic			(ɾ)

1. Parenthesised sounds are loans, allophones, or free variants

2. /p, t, k/ tends to be slightly aspirated

3. Alveolar and velar consonants are palatalised before the semivowel /j/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
			unrounded	rounded
High	i		ɨ	u
Mid	e		ɘ	o
Low		a

Tones

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References

• Foris, David Paul. 2000. A grammar of Sochiapam Chinantec. Studies in Chinantec languages 6. Dallas: SIL International and UT Arlington.

External links

• A whistled conversation in Sochiapan Chinantec (SIL-Mexico)
• A documentary on Sochiapam Chinantec Whistled Speech (Whistles in the Mist)
• Sochiápam Chinantec Whistled Speech Collection of Mark Sicoli at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

На других языках

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- [en] Sochiapam Chinantec

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[ru] Сочиапамский чинантекский язык

Сочиапамский чинантекский язык (Chinanteco del oeste, Sochiapam Chinantec, Sochiapan Chinantec) — чинантекский язык, на котором говорят в муниципалитетах Куикатлан, Ретумбадеро, Сан-Педро-Сочиапан, Сан-Хуан-Сапотитлан, Сан-Хуан-Саутла, Сантьяго-Кецалапа на севере штата Оахака в Мексике. Это наиболее близкий к тлакоацинтепекскому диалекту, с которым у него схожесть в лексике на 66 % (взаимопонятность в обратном направлении на 75 %, предположительно, из-за близких отношений в этом направлении). В сочиапамском чинантекском языке есть 7 тонов: высокий, средний, низкий, высокий падающий, средний падающий, средний растущий и низкий растущий.

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