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(Redirected from Puebla Mazatec) Mazatecan language of Mexico
Tecóatl Mazatec
Eloxochitlán Mazatec
(San Jerónimo Tecóatl)
(Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón)
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca, Puebla
Native speakers(53,000 cited 2000–2016)
Language familyOto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
maa – Tecóatl Mazatec
pbm – Puebla Mazatec
Glottologsanj1286

Tecóatl Mazatec, also known as Eloxochitlán Mazatec and Northern Highland Mazatec, is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, 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 prestige variety 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 for a detailed description of these languages.

Phonology

Vowels

The San Jerónimo Mazatec dialect contains four vowel sounds; /i e a o/.

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Palatal Retroflex Velar Glottal
Plosive t k ʔ
Affricate ts
Fricative s ʃ h
Nasal m n ɲ
Rhotic r
Approximant l j w

/w/ may have the allophone /β/.

References

  1. Tecóatl Mazatec at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon
    Puebla Mazatec at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) Closed access icon
  2. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeo. 1978. Online source
  3. Eloxochitlán Mazatec
  4. 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.

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