Sierra Totonac is a

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, Mexico. One of the Totonacan languages, 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) *Coyutla Totonac *Olintla Totonac *Ozelonacaxtla Totonac *Huehuetla Totonac *Coatepec Totonac† Zapotitlán Totonac is the best known, being the variety described by Aschmann.

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. [Serie de vocabularios indígenas 'Mariano Silva y Aceves', Núm. 7.] México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. *Aschmann, Herman P. 1983 [1962]. Vocabulario totonaco de la sierra. [Serie 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

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Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
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