Tecóatl Mazatec, also known as Eloxochitlán Mazatec and Northern Highland Mazatec, is a
Mazatecan language spoken in the
Mexican state
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s of
Oaxaca
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and
Puebla
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, notably in the towns of
San Jerónimo Tecóatl,
Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón,
San Lucas Zoquiapam,
Santa Cruz Acatepec
Santa Cruz Acatepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
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,
San Pedro Ocopetatillo
San Pedro Ocopetatillo is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Teotitlán District in the north of the Cañada Region
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,
San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla,
Santa Ana Ateixtlahuaca
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It is part of the Teotitlán District in the north of the Cañada Region
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, and
San Francisco Huehuetlán. Egland found 76% intelligibility with
Huautla, the
prestige variety
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of Mazatec, though SIL reports that speakers of all dialects "have considerable difficulty understanding the prestigious variant spoken in Huautla de Jiménez"
See
Mazatecan languages
The Mazatecan languages are a group of closely related indigenous languages spoken by some 200,000 people in the area known as the Sierra Mazateca, which is in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, as well as in adjacent ...
for a detailed description of these languages.
Phonology
Vowels
The San Jerónimo Mazatec dialect contains four vowel sounds; /i e a o/.
Consonants
/w/ may have the allophone /β/.
[Bull, Brian E. 1983. Constraint-governed rule application: Principles underlying the application of phonological rules in San Jeronimo Mazatec. Linguistics 21. 431-486. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.]
References
External links
Eloxochitlán Mazatec Mazatec of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca.SIL, Mexico.
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Mazatecan languages