Choápam Zapotec

Choápam Zapotec
Native to	Mexico
Region	northern Oaxaca, Veracruz
Native speakers	12,000 (2007)
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Zapotec Sierra Norte Choápam Zapotec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zpc
Glottolog	choa1237
ELP	Choapan

Choápam Zapotec (Zapoteco de Choápam; in Veracruz Zapoteco de San Juan Comaltepec) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Phonology

Consonants

Stops [k]*, [g], [p], [b], [t], [d]

* Conventionally transcribed /r/.

Sibilant fricatives [s], [z], [ʃ], [ʒ]

Affricates [d͡z], [d͡ʒ], [t͡s], [t͡ʃ]

Sonorants [m], [n], [l], [r]*

* [r] has the voiceless allophone [ṛ] when in a nasal segment, e.g rná¹baˀ², [ṛnábaˀ] (I ask)

Vowels

[i], [e], [ɛ], [o], [u], [a]

The vowels [i], [u], [a], [e] and [ɛ] are nasalised when followed by 'n' at the end of a word.