Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
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| Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl | ||||
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| Spoken in | Hidalgo, northern Puebla and northern Veracruz, Mexico | |||
| Native speakers | 410,000 (1991) | |||
| Language family |
Uto-Aztecan
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| Writing system | Latin | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | nhe | |||
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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuatl variety spoken by about 410,000 people (as of 1991[update])[1] in the eastern part of the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, spread over 1,500 villages[1] in the state of Hidalgo, the northern part of Veracruz and the extreme north of Puebla.[2]
According to SIL's Ethnologue, there is 85% mutual intelligibility between Eastern and Western Huasteca Nahuatl. 50% of Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl speakers know no Spanish.[1]
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iˑ | |
| Mid-high | e eˑ | |
| Mid-low | o oˑ | |
| Low | a aˑ | |
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Apical | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | |||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
| Lateral affricate | tɬ | |||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Liquid | l, r | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Nahuatl, Eastern Huasteca". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth ed.). Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nhe.
- Kimball, Geoffrey (1990). "Noun Pluralization in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl". International Journal of American Linguistics 56 (2): 196–216. doi:10.1086/466150.
