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Isthmus Mixe
Isthmus Mixe
Lowland Mixe
Native to	Mexico
Region	Northeastern Oaxaca
Native speakers	(45,000 cited 1990–2000)
Language family	Mixe–Zoque Mixean Mixe Isthmus Mixe; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; mco – Coatlán, Camotlán; mir – Guichicovi; mzl – Mazatlán
Glottolog	lowl1263
ELP	Lowland Mixe

Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995),^[2] is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca.

Grammar

Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order.^[3] It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head.^[4] Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating.^[4]

Phonology

Consonants of Isthmus Mixe^[4]
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Affricate		t͡s
Fricative			ʃ		h
Glide	w		j

Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization.^[4]

Vowels of Isthmus Mixe
	Front (unrounded)	Central (unrounded)	Back (rounded)
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

References

^ Coatlán, Camotlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Guichicovi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Mazatlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Wichmann, Søren (1995). The relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean languages of Mexico. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 9780874804874. OCLC 32589134.
^ Dieterman, Julia (2002-09-13). "Word order variation in Isthmus Mixe: voice and discourse considerations". SIL International. Retrieved 2019-02-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dieterman, Julia (2008). "Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account". SIL International. Retrieved 2019-02-06.