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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

criterion of 70% intelligibility, Lalana–Tepinapa, Quiotepec–Comaltepec, Palantla–Valle Nacional, and geographically distant Chiltepec–Tlacoatzintepec would

/be˞˞/ "crop". Mild and strong aspiration, [kʰ], [kʰʰ]. Nasalization, as in Palantla Chinantec lightly nasalized /ẽ/ vs heavily nasalized /ẽ̃/, though some

high vowels in Chamorro and low vowels in Thai. A few languages, such as Palantla Chinantec, contrast lightly nasalized and heavily nasalized vowels. They

occasional IPA use of a double tilde for a high degree of nasalization, as in Palantla Chinantec /ẽ̃/. This equal-sign diacritic or double macron needs to be

neighboring nasal consonants has been observed. There are languages, such as in Palantla Chinantec, where vowels seem to exhibit three contrastive degrees of nasality:

and El Naranjal. It has 60% intelligibility with Quiotepec Chinantec and Palantla Chinantec. Tepetotutla Chinantec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription

studies” Phonology 23(2):157-191. W.R. Merrifield and J.A.Edmondson. 1999. "Palantla Chinantec: Phonetic experiments on nasalization, stress, and tone," International

above sea level. The town had its origins when the residents of San Juan Palantla needed to escape an epidemic that devastated the village. First they established

I/L Nanti (coy) I/E Coyaima coz I/L Chochotec chocho cpa I/L Chinantec, Palantla cpb I/L Ashéninka, Ucayali-Yurúa cpc I/L Ajyíninka Apurucayali cpg I/E