Chatino, Eastern Highland

Conjugate Verbs

Facts

  • Language: Chatino, Eastern Highland
  • Alternate names: Chatino de la Zona Alta Oriental, Chatino Oriental Alto, Lachao-Yolotepec Chatino, Sierra Oriental Chatino
  • Language code: cly
  • Language family: Otomanguean, Eastern Otomanguean, Popoloca-Zapotecan, Zapotecan, Chatino, Core Chatino, Coastal Chatino, Eastern Chatino
  • Number of speakers: 1800
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Introduction

    Highland Chatino is an indigenous Mesoamerican language, one of the Chatino family of the Oto-Manguean languages. Dialects are rather diverse; Ethnologue 16 counts them as three languages as follows:

    The Chatino, Eastern Highland Verb

    Verbs in Chatino inflect for four aspect-mood values: Completive, Potential, Habitual and Progressive (also known as ‘Continuous’ or ‘Continuative’). Verbs have different stems for each of these values. Tones plays a major role in the making of inflection, both in the marking of aspect-mood distinctions and in the marking of the person of the subject.

    Verblist

    ja¹, jen², ji¹, jinyiq², jlya⁴², jlyo³², jwi³, kwa¹⁴, kwa³, kwan¹, kwi¹, la¹, lkwi¹, lo²⁴, lqa³, lu¹, lya¹⁴, naq¹, naq¹⁴, ncha¹, nchaq⁴², nchin¹, nchuq⁴, nda³, nden⁴², ndiyan³², ndlyu¹, ndlyu⁴², ndon⁴², nduq⁴², ndya³, ndyi⁴, ndyu², ndywan², ndywiq³, ne¹⁴, ne⁴², nge⁴², nglu³, ngon², ngwa², ngya⁴², ngyla³, nkeq³, nkin², nkjwi⁴², nkonq⁴², nkqi¹, nkqwa¹, nkqwa⁴², nkwa³, nkwi¹, nkya⁴², nlyu¹, nna¹, nsuq³, ntaq³, nten³, nti¹, ntiqi¹, ntkonq³, nton³, nton⁴², ntqan¹, ntqen¹, ntqo¹, ntsa²⁴, ntsaq⁴², ntsen⁴², ntsiq³, ntson¹⁴, ntsu⁴², ntyi¹, ntyinq³, ntyja², ntyjanq², ntyjyuq¹, ntyka², ntykanq³, ntykaq¹, ntykonq⁴², ntykwa⁴, ntykwan¹⁴, ntykwan², ntykwen³, ntyqo¹, ntyqya¹, nxi², nxin⁴², nya¹⁴, nyi¹⁴, qa²⁴, qan⁴, qen⁴, qen⁴², qne¹, qne⁴², qnyi¹, qu¹⁴, qya³, qya⁴², saq², sen¹, sen⁴², skanq³, skonq³, skwa³, skwan², skwan⁴, skwaq¹, skwen¹, sla¹, slaq¹, slu¹⁴, slya²⁴, sna³, sne¹⁴, sne³, snyaq¹, son³, sqan¹, sqi², sqna¹, sqwa¹⁴, sqwe¹⁴, sqwe²⁴, sqwi¹⁴, sqya¹, sqyu¹, sta¹, stan¹⁴, sti⁴, ston⁴², styi¹, swenq³, swi²⁰, xin², xin⁴², xka²⁴, xki¹, xku²⁰, xkuq², xkwan¹⁴, xkwen¹⁴, xla³, xlyu⁴², xne¹⁰, xoq², xqan¹, xqwa¹⁰, xta¹, xti²⁰, xtya²⁰, xtyiq¹⁰, xyaq², ya⁴², yja¹, yjaq³, yjoq⁴, yjwiq², yku⁴, ykuq², ykwanq¹, ykwaq⁴, ykwen², ykwenq¹, ykwiq⁴, yla³, ylaq⁴, ylu³, yna³, yna⁴², ynaq¹, yno¹, yo², yqan⁴², yqo², yqu², yqwe², yqwi⁴, yta⁴, ytiq⁴, ytsaq³, ytsen⁴², ywi⁴².