Language name and locationː Highland Popoluca, Mexico [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区高地波波卢卡语, 墨西哥东南部韦拉克鲁斯州

 

1. tuum

2. wɨsteen

3. tukuteen

4. maktasteen

5. mosteen

6. six up from Spanish numerals

 

Linguists providing data and dateː Dr. Salomé Guitiérrez Morales, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA and CIESAS (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), Mexico. September 25, 2009.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Salomé Guitiérrez Morales, 2009 年 9 月 25 .

 

Other comments: Highland Popoluca or Sierra Popoluc has only retained five traditional numerals. They used Spanish numerals from six up. Highland Popoluca is spoken by about 60,000 speakers in Veracruz state, Mexico.

Sierra Popoluca Phonemic system:
Sierra Popoluca has 26 distinctive sounds: 20 consonants and 6 vowels. There are 3
additional consonants in borrowed words. Tables 1 and 2 show the native consonants
and vowels. Tables 3 and 4 show consonants borrowed from Spanish and Nahuatl.

Table 1. Consonant Chart.

 

Bilabial

Alveolar

Alveopalatal

Palatal

Velar

Glottal

Stop

p, b

t, d

 c,  ɟ

 

k, ɡ

 ʔ

Nasal

m

n

 

ɲ

 ŋ

 

Fricative

 

s

ç

  ʃ

 

h

Affricate

 

  t͡s

        

 

 

 

Glide

 w

 

 

j

 

 

 

Table 2. Vowel Chart.

 

Front

Central

Back

High

i

 ɨ

u

Mid

e

 

o

Low

 

a

 

 

Table 3. Borrowed phonemes from Spanish.

 

Labial

Alveolar

Fricative

f

 

Liquids

 

l, r 

 

Table 4. Borrowed phonemes from Nahuatl.

 

Alveolar

Liquids

l 


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