Sierra Totonac is a
native American language
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complex spoken in
Puebla
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and
Veracruz
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,
Mexico
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. One of the
Totonacan languages
The Totonacan languages (also known as Totonac–Tepehua languages) are a Language families, family of closely related languages spoken by approximately 290,000 Totonac (approx. 280,000) and Tepehua people, Tepehua (approx. 10,000) people in the ...
, it is also known as Highland Totonac. The language is best known through the work of the late Herman “Pedro” Aschmann who produced a small dictionary and several academic articles on the language.
Varieties
The varieties of Sierra Totonac are rather diverse, and specialists tend to consider them distinct languages. They are:
*Zapotitlán (Zapotitlán de Méndez) Totonac (in
Sierra Norte de Puebla
The Sierra Norte de Puebla is a rugged mountainous region accounting for the northern third of the state of Puebla, Mexico. It is at the intersection of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre Oriental, between the Mexican Plateau ...
)
*Coyutla Totonac
*Olintla Totonac
*Ozelonacaxtla Totonac
*Huehuetla Totonac
*Coatepec Totonac†
Zapotitlán Totonac is the best known, being the variety described by Aschmann.
See also
*
Papantla Totonac
Papantla Totonac, also known as Lowland Totonac, is a native American language spoken in central Mexico, in the state of Veracruz around the city of Papantla
Papantla () is a city and municipality located in the north of the state of Veracruz, M ...
References
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1946a. Totonaco Phonemes. International Journal of American Linguistics. 12:34–43.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1946b. Totonac Categories of Smell. Tlalocan. 2:187–189.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1948. Cuento del zorro. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1949a. Cuento de la hija del ratón. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1949b. Vocabulario de la lengua totonaca. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1950a. Cuento de la rana y el buey. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1950b. Tres cuentos con moraleja. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1950c. A literal Translation of 2 Corinthians 1:1–11 in Totonac. The Bible Translator. 1:171–179.
—*Aschmann, Herman P. 1953. Los dos niveles de composición en el verbo totonaco. In Bernal, Ignacio and Hurtado, Eusebio Dávalos, eds. Huastecos, totonacos y sus vecinos. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos. 13(2/3):119–122. México: Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1956. Vocabulario de la lengua totonaca. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano y Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1962. Vocabulario totonaco de la sierra.
erie de vocabularios indígenas 'Mariano Silva y Aceves', Núm. 7.México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
*Aschmann, Herman P. 1983
962
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* December – Arab–Byzantine wars – Sack of Aleppo: A Byzantine e ...
Vocabulario totonaco de la sierra.
erie de vocabularios indígenas 'Mariano Silva y Aceves', Núm. 7.México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. http://www.sil.org/mexico/totonaca/sierra/S007a-VocTotonacoFacs-tos.htm
External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Indigenous languages of Mexico
Totonacan languages
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