Article Title

Cuicateco Indian tribe

Authors

Marjorie Davis, SIL-UND

DOI

10.31356/silwp.vol14.03

Abstract

Excerpts: "The Cuicateco Indians of Mexico are a tribe without songs, yet they are known as the singing people. The tribal language is a tonal one with many word couplets, triplets and quadruplets which sound alike except for a difference in the tone. To put Cuicateco words to existing tunes in other languages would be a total loss since the music would mar the meaning so much that it could not be understood."

"To compose songs in Cuicateco the relativity of the tones on the words must be preserved in the music."

Recommended Citation

Davis, Marjorie (1970) "Cuicateco Indian tribe," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 14, Article 3.
DOI: 10.31356/silwp.vol14.03
Available at: https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol14/iss1/3