Huehuetla Tepehua

Huehuetla Tepehua
Huehuetla Tepehua
Lhiimaqalhqama7
Native to	Mexico
Region	northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico
Native speakers	1,500 (2007)
Language family	Totonacan Tepehua Huehuetla Tepehua; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tee
Glottolog	hueh1236
ELP	Huehuetla Tepehua
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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[]

Consonant phonemes
		Labial	Alveolar			Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
		Labial	plain	sibilant	lateral	Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Stop	plain	p	t	ts		tʃ	k	q	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ		tʃʼ	kʼ
	voiced	(b)	(d)				(g)
Fricative				s	ɬ	ʃ			h
Approximant		w			l	j
Trill			r
Flap			ɾ

The voiced stops /b/, /d/, and /g/, as well as the flap /ɾ/ and the trill /r/, appear only in loanwords and ideophones. In younger speakers, the uvular /q/ has merged with the glottal stop /ʔ/.

Vowels[]

Vowel Phonemes
	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Morphology[]

Huehuetla Tepehua has a large variety of affixes (Kung 2007).

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 and Proximal -chii

Derivative affixes

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

References[]

^ Huehuetla Tepehua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Kung, Susan Smythe. 2007 A Descriptive Grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua. Ph.D. dissertation: The University of Texas at Austin.

[e18-1] Huehuetla Tepehua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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Huehuetla Tepehua
Lhiimaqalhqama7
Native to	Mexico
Region	northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico
Native speakers	1,500 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Totonacan Tepehua Huehuetla Tepehua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tee`
Glottolog	`hueh1236`
ELP	Huehuetla Tepehua
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.