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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

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
  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/

References

1. Unidad Médica Rural de Pisaflores, cited in MacKay & Treschel (2013)
2. Pisaflores Tepehua at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
3. ^ MacKay, Carolyn J.; Treschel, Frank R. (April 2013). "A sketch of Pisaflores Tepehua phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics. 79 (2). The University of Chicago: 189–218. doi:10.1086/669628. S2CID 147059268.

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

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