Pisaflores Tepehua is a
Tepehua language
Tepehua is a language cluster of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the Tepehua people. Tepehua is a Mesoamerican language and shows many of the traits which define the Mesoamerican Linguistic Area. Along with some 62 ...
of
Veracruz
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,
Mexico
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. It is spoken in the towns of
Ixhuatlán de Madero
Ixhuatlán de Madero is a Municipality in Veracruz, Mexico. It is located in north zone of the State of Veracruz, about 376 km from state capital Xalapa, in the region called Huasteca Baja. It is one of 212 municipalities in Veracruz. It has ...
and
Pisaflores.
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
Phonotactics
Pisaflores Tepehua
syllable structure
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "bu ...
is summarized by MacKay and Treschel (2013) as:
* C (C) V (C (C))
That is, Pisaflores Tepehua syllables must start with a consonant or two-consonant cluster, have one vowel sound, and may end without consonants or with a consonant or two-consonant cluster.
Phonological restrictions apply:
*
Onset
Onset may refer to:
*Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or sound
*Onset, Massachusetts, village in the United States
**Onset Island (Massachusetts), a small island located at the western end of the Cape Cod Canal
*Interonset interval, ...
*# C can be any consonant
*# C can only exist if and only if C is a fricative (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/)
*# C cannot be a fricative or affricate (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/, /ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/)
*# If C = /ɬ/, then C cannot be a lateral (/ɬ/, /l/)
*
Nucleus
Nucleus ( : nuclei) is a Latin word for the seed inside a fruit. It most often refers to:
*Atomic nucleus, the very dense central region of an atom
*Cell nucleus, a central organelle of a eukaryotic cell, containing most of the cell's DNA
Nucle ...
*# V can be any vowel, long or short
*
Coda
Coda or CODA may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* Movie coda, a post-credits scene
* ''Coda'' (1987 film), an Australian horror film about a serial killer, made for television
*''Coda'', a 2017 American experimental film from Na ...
*# C can be any consonant that is not an affricate (/ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/)
*# C can be a bilabial stop (/p/, /pʼ/) in syllable-final positions, but never in word-final positions
*# C can only exist if and only if C = /k/ or C = /ʔ/
*# C can only be /s/, /ɕ/, or /ɬ/ if C = /k/
*# C can only be /s/ or /ɕ/ if C = /ʔ/
References
External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Totonacan languages
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Languages of Mexico