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Huehuetla Tepehua

Tepehua language of Mexico

Summary

Tepehua language of Mexico

Field	Value
name	Huehuetla Tepehua
nativename	Lhiimaqalhqama7
states	Mexico
region	northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico
speakers	1,500
date	2007
ref
familycolor	American
fam1	Totonacan
fam2	Tepehua
iso3	tee
glotto	hueh1236
glottorefname	Huehuetla Tepehua
notice	IPA

Huehuetla Tepehua is a moribund Tepehua language spoken in Huehuetla, northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico. There are fewer than 1,500 speakers left according to Susan Smythe Kung (2007).

Syntax

Word order tends to be VSO, although it can be SVO at times (Kung 2007).

Phonology

Consonants

Huehuelta Tepehua has 26 consonant phonemes.The following table lists these phonemes and uses Kung's practical orthography in angled brackets.

Labial	Alveolar	Post-
alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal	plain	sibilant	lateral	Nasal	Stop/
Affricate	plain	ejective	voiced	Fricative	Approximant	Trill	Flap
()	()				()

The voiced stops , , and , as well as the flap and the trill , appear only in loanwords and ideophones.

In younger speakers, the uvular /q/ has merged with the glottal stop /ʔ/. Based on fieldwork from previous linguists and interviews with modern speakers, Kung theorizes that merged into between 1945 and 1984. When Kung began her fieldwork in 1999, was only consistently found in speakers over 65.

Vowels

Hueheutla Tepehua has ten phonemic vowels. Earlier stages of the language only had six, with , , , and in complimentary distribution.

Front	Central	Back	High	Mid	Low

Morphology

Huehuetla Tepehua has a large variety of affixes.

;Valency-changing affixes

Reflexive -kan
Reciprocal laa-
Dative -ni
Causative maa-
Instrumental puu-
Comitative t'aa-
Applicative lhii-

;Aspectual derivational affixes

Inchoative ta-
Imminent ti-
Roundtrip kii-
Ambulative -t'ajun
Begin -tzuku
Desiderative -putun
Repetitive -pala
Again -choqo
All -qoju
Distal -chaa
Proximal tee

;Derivative affixes

Agent nominalizer –nV7
Non-agentive nominalizers –ti and -nti
Deverbalizer -n
Instrumental paa- and lhaa-
Locative puu-
Applicative lhii-
Comitative t'aa-

References

Sources

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