Usila Chinantec

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Usila
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca, one town in Veracruz
Ethnicity Chinantecs
Native speakers
 7,400  (2000)[1]
Oto-Mangue
  • Western Oto-Mangue
    • Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
      • Chinantec
        • Usila
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cuc

Usila is a Chinantec language of Mexico. It is most similar to Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec, with which it has 50% intelligibility (intelligibility in the reverse direction is 85%, presumably due to greater familiarity in that direction).[2]

Like other Chinantec and Mazatec languages, Usila Chinantec is a tonal language noted for having whistled speech. Its tone system is unusually detailed, however, with five register tones.

References

  1. ↑ Usila reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ↑ http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cuc
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