奎卡特克语

奎卡特克语（）为墨西哥瓦哈卡州西部民族广泛使用的语言，属欧托-曼格语系。奎卡特克族与米斯特克族联系较为紧密。据2000年人口普查，65%的奎卡特克族人口使用该语言Website of the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=660 , accessed 28 July 2008.。

“奎卡特克”（Cuicatec）为纳瓦特尔语外来词，由“cuīcatl”（意为“歌”）与后缀“-tēcatl”（意为某地居民）组成Campbell 1997:402)。

其与米斯特克语、特里基语属同一语系The proposal to group Mixtec, Trique and Cuicatec into a single family (none more closely related to one than to the other) was made by Longacre (1957) with convincing evidence.。根据民族语言网，其分为特佩斯特拉与特乌蒂拉奎卡特克语。与该语系其他语言相似，其也为声调语言。

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参考文献
Anderson, E. Richard & Hilario Concepción R. 1983. Diccionario cuicateco: español-cuicateco, cuicateco-español. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
Bradley, David P. 1991. A preliminary syntactic sketch of Concepción Pápalo Cuicatec. In C. Henry Bradley and Barbara E. Hollenbach (eds.), Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 3, pp. 409–506. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Campbell, Lyle. 1997. American Indian languages: the historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Needham, Doris & Marjorie Davis. 1946. Cuicateco phonology.  International Journal of American Linguistics 12: 139-46.

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