Tlapanec language
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| Tlapanec | ||
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| Meph'aa | ||
| Spoken in | Mexico | |
| Region | Guerrero, Morelos | |
| Total speakers | approx. 75,000 | |
| Language family | Oto-Mangue
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | tpa | |
| ISO 639-3 | tpc | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Tlapanec is a Mexican indigenous language spoken by around 75,000 Tlapanec people in the states of Guerrero and Morelos.[1] Like other Oto-Manguean languages, it is tonal and has complex inflectional morphology. The Tlapanec themselves call their language Me'phaa.[2]
Tlapanec was long regarded as unclassified. Later it was connected to Subtiaba of Nicaragua, and once linked to the controversial Hokan language family.[3] More recent analyses have now definitively linked Tlapanec to the Oto-Manguean linguistic family, of which it forms its own subgroup along with the extinct and very closely related Subtiaba language.[4]
Although originally from Guerrero, some Tlapanec speakers have recently settled in the state of Morelos near Chinameca.
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[edit] Dialects
Ethnologue lists four principal varieties of Tlapanec:[5]
- Acatepec
- Azoyú
- Malinaltepec
- Tlacoapa.
Others, including native speakers, identify as many as eight major dialects.[6]
The Azoyú variety is the only natural language reported to have used the Pegative case.[7]
[edit] Media
Tlapanec-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEZV-AM, broadcasting from Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero.
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Fernández de Miranda, María Teresa (1968). "Inventory of Classificatory Materials". in in Norman A. McQuown (Volume ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 5: Linguistics. R. Wauchope (General Editor). Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 63–78. ISBN 0-292-73665-7. OCLC 277126.
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition (online version ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International.
- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (n.d.). "Tlapanecan family". El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en México. http://www.sil.org/mexico/tlapaneca/00i-tlapaneca.htm. Retrieved on 2007-03-13.
- Sapir, Edward (1925). "The Hokan affinity of Subtiaba in Nicaragua". American Anthropologist (New Series) 27 (3,4): pp.402–435, 491–527. doi:.
- Suárez, Jorge A. (1977) (MS). El tlapaneco como lengua Otomangue. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México. (Spanish)
- ——— (1983). La lengua tlapaneca de Malinaltepec. México, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas. ISBN 968-5805-07-5. (Spanish)
- ——— (1986). "Elementos gramaticales otomangues en tlapaneco". in Benjamin F. Elson (ed.). Language in a global perspective (Papers in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Summer Institute of Linguistics 1935-1985. Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0-714-17263-5.
- Swadesh, Morris (1968). "Lexicostatistic Classification". in Norman A. McQuown (Volume ed.). Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 5: Linguistics. R. Wauchope (General Editor). Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 79–116. ISBN 0-292-73665-7. OCLC 277126.
- Weathers, Mark L. (1976). "Tlapanec 1975". International Journal of American Linguistics 42 (4): pp.367–371. doi:. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7071(197610)42%3A4%3C367%3AT1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0.
- Weathers, Mark L.; and Abad Carrasco Zúñiga (1989). Xó nitháán mè’phàà: Cómo se escribe el tlapaneco. México, D.F.: Editorial Cuajimalpa.
- Wichmann, Søren (2005). "Tlapanec Cases" (PDF) in Conference on Otomanguean and Oaxacan Languages, March 19-21, 2004. Rosemary Beam de Azcona and Mary Paster (eds.) Report 13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages: pp.133-145, Berkeley CA: University of California at Berkeley. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
