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Coatzospan Mixtec (Coatzóspam Mixtec) is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan. ==Phonology== Consonants in parentheses are marginal: In women's speech, is realized as before front vowels. Vowel qualities are . Vowels may be oral or nasal, creaky or modal, long or short: e.g. "to go". is apparently never contrastively nasalized, though it may be phonetically nasalized due to assimilation with a nasal vowel in a following syllable, and morphologically nasalized for the second-person familiar (e.g. 'to come', 'you will come'). The preceding vowel nasalizes only if the intervening consonant is voiced, or in some words . Nonetheless, even voiceless fricatives and affricates are phonetically nasalized in such environments: ; the nasalization is visible in the flaring of the nostrils. The first vowel of a disyllable is creaky if the second consonant is voiceless (except for ); only when C2 is voiced or can there be a contrast between creaky and modal vowels in V1. The irregular behavior is apparently due to it deriving from proto-Mixtec from both voiceless velar and voiced (" *y"). It is words in which derives from *j that allow V1 to be nasalized or contrastively modally voiced. Tones are ... 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coatzospan Mixtec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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