{{Short description|Chinantec language of Mexico}} {{Infobox language | name = Usila | nativename = | states = Mexico | region = Oaxaca, one town in Veracruz | ethnicity = Chinantecs | speakers = 7,400 | date = 2000 | ref = e18 | familycolor = oto-manguean | fam1 = Oto-Mangue | fam2 = Western Oto-Mangue | fam3 = Oto-Pame–Chinantecan | fam4 = Chinantec | iso3 = cuc | glotto = usil1237 | glottorefname = Usila 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).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ethnologue.com/language/cuc| title = Chinantec, Usila {{!}} Ethnologue}}</ref>
== Phonology == 200px|thumb| the register-tone inventory of Usila Chinantec|left 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.<ref>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.</ref>
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Category:Chinantec languages