# Usila Chinantec

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{{Short description|Chinantec language of Mexico}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Usila
| nativename       = 
| states           = [Mexico](/source/Mexico)
| region           = [Oaxaca](/source/Oaxaca), one town in [Veracruz](/source/Veracruz)
| ethnicity        = [Chinantecs](/source/Chinantecs)
| speakers         = 7,400
| date             = 2000
| ref              = e18
| familycolor      = oto-manguean
| fam1             = [Oto-Mangue](/source/Oto-Manguean_languages)
| fam2             = Western Oto-Mangue
| fam3             = Oto-Pame–Chinantecan
| fam4             = [Chinantec](/source/Chinantec_language)
| iso3             = cuc
| glotto           = usil1237
| glottorefname    = Usila Chinantec
}}

'''Usila''' is a [Chinantec language](/source/Chinantec_language) of Mexico. It is most similar to [Tlacoatzintepec Chinantec](/source/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 language](/source/Mazatec_language)s, Usila Chinantec is a tonal language noted for having [whistled speech](/source/whistled_speech). Its tone system is unusually finely graded, however, with five [register tone](/source/register_tone)s 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>

==References==
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