Tlachichilco Tepehua
Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico
Tlachichilco Tepehua | |
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West Tepehua | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Veracruz |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Language family | Totonacan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tpt |
Glottolog | tlac1235 |
ELP | Tlachichilco Tepehua |
Tlachichilco Tepehua is a Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico.
Phonology
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
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central | lateral | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | q | ʔ | ||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | (qʼ) | ||||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ɕ | |||||
ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ɕʼ | ||||||
Rhotic | (ɾ, r) | |||||||
Fricative | s | ɬ | ɕ | h | ||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
- The uvular ejective [qʼ] is only phonemically present in other dialects.
- Rhotic sounds [ɾ, r] only occur from either Spanish loan words or onomatopoetic words.[2]
References
- ^ Tlachichilco Tepehua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Watters, James K. (1988). Topics in Tepehua Grammar. Ann Arbor: UMI. pp. 487–501.
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