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