Pisaflores Tepehua

Pisaflores Tepehua
North Tepehua
Native to	Mexico
Region	Veracruz
Native speakers	2,500 (2000)
Language family	Totonacan Tepehua Pisaflores Tepehua
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tpp
Glottolog	pisa1237
ELP	Pisaflores Tepehua

Pisaflores Tepehua is a Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico. It is spoken in the towns of Ixhuatlán de Madero and Pisaflores.

Phonology

Consonants

Pisaflores Tepehua consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Alveo- palatal	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			central	lateral
Nasal		m	n
Stop	pulmonic	p	t				k	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ				kʼ
Affricate	pulmonic		ts		tɕ
	ejective		tsʼ		tɕʼ
Fricative			s	ɬ	ɕ			h
Approximant		w		l		j

Vowels

Pisaflores Tepehua vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i  iː		u  uː
Mid	e  eː		o  oː
Open		a  aː

Phonotactics

Pisaflores Tepehua syllable structure is summarized by MacKay and Treschel (2013) as:

• C₁ (C₂) V (C₃ (C₄))

That is, Pisaflores Tepehua syllables must start with a consonant or two-consonant cluster, have one vowel sound, and may end without consonants or with a consonant or two-consonant cluster.

Phonological restrictions apply:

• Onset
  1. C₁ can be any consonant
  2. C₂ can only exist if and only if C₁ is a fricative (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/)
  3. C₂ cannot be a fricative or affricate (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/, /ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/)
  4. If C₁ = /ɬ/, then C₂ cannot be a lateral (/ɬ/, /l/)
• Nucleus
  1. V can be any vowel, long or short
• Coda
  1. C₃ can be any consonant that is not an affricate (/ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/)
  2. C₃ can be a bilabial stop (/p/, /pʼ/) in syllable-final positions, but never in word-final positions
  3. C₄ can only exist if and only if C₃ = /k/ or C₃ = /ʔ/
  4. C₄ can only be /s/, /ɕ/, or /ɬ/ if C₃ = /k/
  5. C₄ can only be /s/ or /ɕ/ if C₃ = /ʔ/

External links

• Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.