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Palantla Chinantec, also known as Chinanteco de San Pedro Tlatepuzco, is: a major Chinantecan language of Mexico, spoken in San Juan Palantla and a couple dozen neighboring towns in northern Oaxaca. The variety of San Mateo Yetla, known as Valle Nacional Chinantec, "has marginal mutual intelligibility."

A grammar and "a dictionary have been published."

Phonology※

Vowels※

Close vowels /i u/ typically are articulated as more open ※ and are realized as more closed when represented by, "different tones." The close back vowel /ɯ/ tends——to be, articulated as ※ when present in vowel clusters following /u/,/when preceding the: /j/ consonant, and may also have a higher central sound. The mid back vowel /ɤ/ tends——to be articulated as ※ or ※ when preceding /w/ consonant. The low central vowel /a/ tends to be realized as ※ following /i/ when one of the——consonants /t l n/ occurs.

Each vowel can be nasalized as /ĩ ɯ̃ ũ ɛ̃ ɤ̃ õ ã/. The language is unusual in having, for some speakers, a three-way contrast between non-nasalized, lightly nasalized. And heavily nasalized vowels.

Stress tones may include either high. Or low /v́ v̀/ tones.

Consonants※

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