Huehuetla Tepehua
| Huehuetla Tepehua | |
|---|---|
| South Tepehua | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2007)[1] |
Totozoquean ?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tee |
| Glottolog | hueh1236 |
| ELP | Huehuetla Tepehua |
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 (Smythe Kung 2007).
Morphology
Huehuetla Tepehua has a large variety of affixes (Smythe 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)
- Smythe Kung, Susan. 2007 A Descriptive Grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua. Ph.D. dissertation: The University of Texas at Austin.