Woodbury, Anthony C.England, Nora C.2016-11-232018-01-222016-11-232018-01-222008-12http://hdl.handle.net/2152/43815Chatino is an Oto-Manguean language, part of the Zapotecan family. Zacatapec Chatino is spoken in the small community of San Marcos Zacatepec in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a conservative variety of Chatino, as it conserves the penultimate syllables of disyllabic roots. Nowadays, Zacatepec Chatino is only spoken by community members above 35 years of age and is considered a moribund language. Its phonology presents us with sixteen vowel rimes (oral, nasal, glottalized and nasalized, and glottalized), lamino-alveolar sounds, and a large inventory of tones (8 tone categories). Syntactically, it is a VSO language, although other word orders are acceptable, depending on pragmatic motivations.electronicengCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.Zapotecan languageOto-Manguen languageChatinoThesisRestricted