Pisaflores Tepehua
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Pisaflores Tepehua is a Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico. It is spoken in the towns of Ixhuatlán de Madero and Pisaflores.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| median | 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
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 C1 can be any consonant C2 can only exist if and only if C1 is a fricative (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/) C2 cannot be a fricative or affricate (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/, /ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/) If C1 = /ɬ/, then C2 cannot be a lateral (/ɬ/, /l/)
- Nucleus V can be any vowel, long or short
- Coda C3 can be any consonant that is not an affricate (/ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/) C3 can be a bilabial stop (/p/, /pʼ/) in syllable-final positions, but never in word-final positions C4 can only exist if and only if C3 = /k/ or C3 = /ʔ/ C4 can only be /s/, /ɕ/, or /ɬ/ if C3 = /k/ C4 can only be /s/ or /ɕ/ if C3 = /ʔ/
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