Huasteca Nahuatl | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | La Huasteca ( San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz) |
Native speakers | (Eastern: 410,000 cited 1991)
[1] Central: 200,000 (2000) [1] Western: 400,000 (1991) [1] |
Uto-Aztecan
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
nhe – Eastern (Veracruz)
nch – Central
nhw – Western (Tamazunchale) |
Glottolog |
huas1257 |
ELP | Western Huasteca Nahuatl |
Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern) and San Luis Potosí (Western). [2]
Ethnologue divides Huasteca Nahuatl into three languages: Eastern, Central, and Western, as they judge that separate literature is required, but notes that there is 85% mutual intelligibility between Eastern and Western. [3]
XEANT-AM radio broadcasts in Huasteca Nahuatl.
Huasteca Nahuatl is spoken in the following municipalities in the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, and San Luis Potosí. [4]
The following description is that of Eastern Huasteca.
Front | Back | |
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High | i iˑ | |
Mid-high | e eˑ | |
Mid-low | o oˑ | |
Low | a aˑ |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | plain | labialized | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Plosive | p | t | k, ɡ | kʷ | ʔ | ||
Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | ||||
Continuant | s | ʃ | ʍ | h | |||
Semivowel | j | w | |||||
Liquid | r | l |
Huasteca Nahuatl currently has several proposed orthographies, most prominent among them those of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ), [5] Mexican government publications, and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). [6]
Sample text: 'a book about my location.'
Huasteca Nahuatl | |
---|---|
Native to | Mexico |
Region | La Huasteca ( San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz) |
Native speakers | (Eastern: 410,000 cited 1991)
[1] Central: 200,000 (2000) [1] Western: 400,000 (1991) [1] |
Uto-Aztecan
| |
Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:
nhe – Eastern (Veracruz)
nch – Central
nhw – Western (Tamazunchale) |
Glottolog |
huas1257 |
ELP | Western Huasteca Nahuatl |
Huasteca Nahuatl is a Nahuan language spoken by over a million people in the region of La Huasteca in Mexico, centered in the states of Hidalgo (Eastern) and San Luis Potosí (Western). [2]
Ethnologue divides Huasteca Nahuatl into three languages: Eastern, Central, and Western, as they judge that separate literature is required, but notes that there is 85% mutual intelligibility between Eastern and Western. [3]
XEANT-AM radio broadcasts in Huasteca Nahuatl.
Huasteca Nahuatl is spoken in the following municipalities in the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, and San Luis Potosí. [4]
The following description is that of Eastern Huasteca.
Front | Back | |
---|---|---|
High | i iˑ | |
Mid-high | e eˑ | |
Mid-low | o oˑ | |
Low | a aˑ |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | plain | labialized | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Plosive | p | t | k, ɡ | kʷ | ʔ | ||
Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | ||||
Continuant | s | ʃ | ʍ | h | |||
Semivowel | j | w | |||||
Liquid | r | l |
Huasteca Nahuatl currently has several proposed orthographies, most prominent among them those of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ), [5] Mexican government publications, and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). [6]
Sample text: 'a book about my location.'