Tecóatl Mazatec, also known as Eloxochitlán Mazatec and Northern Highland Mazatec, is a Mazatecan language spoken in the

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s of

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and

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, notably in the towns of San Jerónimo Tecóatl, Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, San Lucas Zoquiapam, Santa Cruz Acatepec, San Pedro Ocopetatillo, San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla, Santa Ana Ateixtlahuaca, and San Francisco Huehuetlán. Egland found 76% intelligibility with Huautla, the

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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 Mesoamerican languages, 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, ...

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tecoatl Mazatec Mazatecan languages Indigenous languages of Mexico Endangered Indigenous languages of the Americas Endangered languages of North America Vulnerable languages