Usila Chinantec

Usila
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca, one town in Veracruz
Ethnicity	Chinantecs
Native speakers	7,400 (2000)[1]
Language family	Oto-Mangue Western Oto-Mangue Oto-Pame–Chinantecan Chinantec Usila; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cuc
Glottolog	usil1237
ELP	Upper West-Central Chinantec[2]

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).[3]

the register-tone inventory of Usila Chinantec

Like other Chinantecan and Mazatec languages, Usila Chinantec is a tonal language noted for having whistled speech. Its tone system is unusually finely graded, however, with five register tones and four contour tones.[4]

References

Usila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Endangered Languages Project data for Upper West-Central Chinantec.
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cuc
Edmondson, Jerold A. & Gregerson, Kenneth J. (1992). On Five-level Tone Systems. In Shin Ja J. Hwang & William R. Merrifield (Eds.), Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre (pp. 555-576). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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[e18-1] Usila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Upper West-Central Chinantec.

[3] ttp://www.ethnologue.com/language/cuc

[4] Edmondson, Jerold A. & Gregerson, Kenneth J. (1992). On Five-level Tone Systems. In Shin Ja J. Hwang & William R. Merrifield (Eds.), Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre (pp. 555-576). Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics.