Huamelultec (also known as Huamelula Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca) is one of the
Chontal languages of
Oaxaca
Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...
, Mexico. It is spoken in the Oaxacan municipalities of
San Pedro Huamelula
San Pedro Huamelula is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.
It is in the west of the Tehuantepec District in the west of the Istmo Region, on the Pacific coast.
Environment
The municipality covers an area of 505.23 ...
(settlements of Barra de la Cruz, El Bejuco, El Coyul, El Gavilán, El Limón, El Porvenir, Guayacán, Los Cocos, Maximino Cruz (Rancho Maximino Cruz), Morro Ayuta, Paja Blanca, Río Papaya, Río Seco, San Isidro Chacalapa, San Pedro Huamelula, Santa María (Santa María Huamelula), and Tapanala),
Santiago Astata
Santiago Astata is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico.
It is part of the Tehuantepec District
Tehuantepec District is located in the west of the Istmo Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.
It includes the cities of Salin ...
(settlements of La Cotorra, La Tortolita (Fraccionamiento la Tortolita), Santiago Astata, Zaachila, and Zaachilac), and
Tehuantepec
Tehuantepec (, in full, Santo Domingo Tehuantepec) is a city and municipality in the southeast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is part of the Tehuantepec District in the west of the Istmo Region. The area was important in pre Hispanic peri ...
(settlement of Morro Mazatán).
The name has been misspelled ''Tlamelula''.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
* /n/ is regularly pronounced as
when in coda position, unless followed by an alveolar consonant.
* Glottalized sounds /fʼ, ɬʼ/ are also said to have been pronounced as affricates
ɸʼ, tɬʼ
See also
*
Huamelultec vocabulary list on the
Spanish Wikipedia
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References
{{Hokan languages
Tequistlatecan languages
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas