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Language name:	ctp
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Audio resources	Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: http://www.ailla.utexas.org/search/view_resource.html?lg_id=181 Global Recordings Network: http://globalrecordings.net/en/language/4818
Source:	Pride, Kitty. 1984. Ms. Declaracíon fonológica del Chatino de Panixtlahuaca. SIL Mexico. Available from http://www.sil.org/acpub/repository/Fonologia_del_Chatino_ctp.pdf (has brief remarks on segment frequency, probably from lexical counts.) Rasch, Jeffrey Walker. 2002. The basic morpho-syntax of Yaitepec Chatino. Ph.D. thesis. Rice University. Available from http://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/18164/3049539.PDF?sequence=1 Sullivant, J. Ryan. 2014. Consonant duration and the post-nasal vociing distinction in Chatino. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, January 4 2014. Available at https://www.academia.edu/5581571/Consonant_duration_and_the_post-nasal_voicing_distinction_in_Chatino
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Location:	Juquila district, Southwest Oaxaca state, Mexico.
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Vowels			front	central	back
Vowels			unrounded	unrounded	rounded
high			i		u
high	nasalized		ĩ		ũ
higher mid			e		o
lower mid	nasalized		ɛ̃		ɔ̃
low				a

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Consonants									bilabial		dental	alv		pal-alv	palatal	velar		glottal
										velar			pal-zed				labialized		labialized	pal-zed
pulm	stop					-vless			p			t	tʲ			k	kʷ	ʔ	ʔʷ	ʔʲ
	stop					-ved			b			d	dʲ			ɡ	ɡʷ
	aff			sib		-vless						ts		t̠ʃ
	fric					-vless												h	hʷ	hʲ
						-ved					ð
				sib		-vless						s		ʃ
				sib		-ved						z		ʒ
	nasal					-ved			m			n	nʲ
	nasal					lary-ed	-ved					n̰	n̰ʲ
	tap/flap					-ved						ɾ
	appr					-ved				w					j
	appr	lat				-ved						l	lʲ

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Consonant notes :	Pride (1984) and Rasch (2002) agree that plain coronals are alveolar but are unclear about segments labeled "alveo-palatal". Apart from the fricative and affricate cases these are taken to be palatalized alveolars. Rasch writes voiceless plosives which don't alternate with voiced counterparts when preceded by a nasal prefix as purely orthographic geminates but Pride interprets the voiced post-nasal cases as instances of voiced stops (which are otherwise very rare). Sullivant (2014) suggests these unvarying stops might be actual geminates, but the duration difference is slihgt in the examples shown, so Pride's solution is preferred. For consistency both laryngeals (/h, ʔ/) are interpreted as occurring palatalized and labialized rather than recognizing voiceless or gloattalized approximants. Nasals do contrast in glottalization.
Vowel notes :	Pride (1984) reports a vowel length distinction and cites some minimal pairs; Rasch (2002: 8) is less certain, noting "The phonological status of vowel length is still under investigation. Neither this author nor the speakers who provided data ... were able to identify length contrasts consistently." Not a single example of a long vowel occurs in the texts in his Appendix (pp. 324-393). Tentatively length is assumed to be a phonetic effect. Rasch (2002) reports nasalized mid vowels as lower than oral counterparts.
Stresscat:	Fixed Stress : weight :
Stress :	If the distinction between main and minor syllables is taken as reflecting a stress difference (as in Pride 1984), Chatino would have a predictable stress pattern, regualrly falling on the (final) stem syllable.
Syllcat:		Syllabic index :	ONC :
Syllabic index Numeric values are given for the maximal degree of elaboration of the Onset, Nucleus and Coda elements separately, and these are summed to give an overall Syllable Index. Onset value are 0 for maximal one-consonant onset (since CV syllable is taken to be universal), 1 for common CC onsets (such as CG, CL), 2 for less common 2-consonant onsets, and 3 for maximally 3 or more consonants in onset. Nucleus scores are 1 for single-mora nuclei as the maximum, and 2 for bimoraic (or longer) nuclei. Coda scores are 1 for maximally a single consonant, 2 for two consonants and 3 for 3 or more consonants permitted in coda. The summed Syllable Index thus ranges from 1 for a languages such as Yoruba with maximal CV syllables to 8 for a language such as English which permits elaborate onset and coda clusters.
Canonical Form :	(C)(C)V(C)	Syllabic Restriction :	(C)(C)V(*)
Syllabic notes :	(C)(C)V(ʔ), also syllabic nasals in word-initial position. Syllables are of two types, each word contains a main syllable in which all vowels and tones potentially contrast, and may also contain a minor syllable with a reduced vowel and no tonal contrast (Rasch 2002). Pride (1984) considered many of these "unstressed" syllables to contain syllabic consonants.
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Tone :	Pride's (1965) very preliminary analysis recognized 4 levels plus 3 R's and 3 F's although "tone is only significant on word-final syllables". Pride (1984) reports mid and low tones on non-final syllables, plus 3 rises and 3 falls which only occur on final syllables. Rasch (2002: 38) reports ten tones for Yaitepec Chatino, four (using the MesoAmericanist convention that 1 = high) are described as level /1/, mid /2/, low-mid /3/, and low /4/, but "tones 3 and 4 are pronounced with a slightly rising pitch" so probably equate to Pride's 43 and 32 tones. Rasch reports two rising tones (/21/ and /32/) and three falling tones (/12/, /23/, /34/) as well as a more sharply falling tone /24/, found only in a few lexical items and in a few Completive forms of verbs. Tones 34 and 24 do not correspond to any in Pride (1984).

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