Chiapanec language

Chiapanec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Ethnicity	32 Chiapanec (1990)
Extinct	ca. 2000?[1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Manguean Chiapanec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cip
Glottolog	chia1262
ELP	Chiapanec

Chiapanec is a presumably extinct indigenous Mexican language of the Oto-Manguean language family believed to have been spoken by the Chiapanec people. 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]

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

Consonants

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

Vowels

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

Notes

1. Chiapanec at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Ethnologue report for language code:cip
3. LISTSERV 14.4 Archived October 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

• 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.