Tlachichilco Tepehua is a Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico.
| Tlachichilco Tepehua | |
|---|---|
| West Tepehua | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Veracruz |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1990)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tpt |
| Glottolog | tlac1235 |
| ELP | Tlachichilco Tepehua |
Phonology
editVowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
Consonants
edit| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal |
Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
edit- ^ 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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