The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico

Søren Wichmann

University of Utah Press, 1995 - Language Study - 619 pages

Describes the phonological development of the Mixe-Zoquean (MZ) language and constructs a morphology for the MZ proto-language, for decipherers of Epi-Olmec writing and students of Mesoamerican prehistory. A section on comparative phonology outlines language classification and looks at developments in Mixean and Zoquean languages. The bulk of the book offers 2,218 cognate sets. Includes Spanish-MZ and English-Spanish word indices, but no subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contents

• Mixean Diachronic Phonology: 115
• Main Variables in Oaxaca Mixean Phonology: 137
• Zoquean Issues: 151

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico; Studies in indigenous languages of the Americas
• Author: Søren Wichmann
• Publisher: University of Utah Press, 1995
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 15, 2008
• ISBN: 0874804876, 9780874804874
• Length: 619 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Study / Indigenous Languages in the Americas; Social Science / Anthropology / General