Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
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Eastern Peripheral variety of the Nahuatl language group
| Sierra Puebla Nahuatl | |
|---|---|
| masehual tla’tol (ncj) | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Puebla |
Native speakers | (200,000 cited 1983–2007)[1] |
Uto-Aztecan
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:azz – Highland Puebla Nahuatl (Zacapoaxtla)ncj – Northern Puebla Nahuatl (Naupan)nhi – Tenango Nahuatl (Zacatlán–Ahuacatlán–Tepetzintla) |
| Glottolog | high1278 Highland Pueblanort2957 Northern Pueblazaca1241 Zacatlan–Ahuacatlan–Tepetzintla |
| ELP | Eastern Nahua ([azz)] |
Sierra Puebla Nahuatl is one of the Eastern Peripheral varieties of Nahuatl, spoken by ethnic Nahua people in northwestern Puebla state in Mexico.
Phonology
[edit ]The following description is that of the Sierra Puebla dialects:[2] [3]
Consonants
[edit ]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | plain | labial | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kw | ʔ | ||
| voiced | ɡ | |||||||
| Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| Approximant | voiced | l | j | w | ||||
| voiceless | (w̥ ) | |||||||
- /t, n, l/ may also freely be heard as dental [t̪, n̪, l̪] among dialects.
- /n/ can be heard as [ŋ] when before velar consonants.
- /w̥/ is of limited distribution.
Vowels
[edit ]| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː |
| Low | a aː | |
- Short vowels /i, e/ may vary freely to [ɪ, ɛ].
- /a/ may be heard as [ɔ] when before /w/.
References
[edit ]- ^ Highland Puebla Nahuatl (Zacapoaxtla) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
Northern Puebla Nahuatl (Naupan) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
Tenango Nahuatl (Zacatlán–Ahuacatlán–Tepetzintla) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon - ^ Key, Harold & Mary R. (1953). The phonemes of Sierra Nahuat. International Journal of American Linguistics 19. pp. 53–56.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Brockway, Earl (1963). The Phonemes of North Puebla Nahuatl. Anthropological Linguistics 5. pp. 14–18.
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External links
[edit ]- Mary Ritchie Key. "Nahuatl (Sierra de Zacapoaxtla), thematic wordlist". The Intercontinental Dictionary Series.
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