Huehuetla Tepehua

Huehuetla Tepehua
South Tepehua
Native to Mexico
Region northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico
Native speakers
1,500 (2007)[1]
Totozoquean ?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tee
Glottolog hueh1236[2]

Huehuetla Tepehua is a moribund Tepehua language spoken in Huehuetla, northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico. There are fewer than 1,500 speakers left according to Susan Smythe Kung (2007).

Syntax

Word order tends to be VSO, although it can be SVO at times (Smythe Kung 2007).

Morphology

Huehuetla Tepehua has a large variety of affixes (Smythe Kung 2007).

Valency-changing affixes
  • Reflexive -kan
  • Reciprocal laa-
  • Dative -ni
  • Causative maa-
  • Instrumental puu-
  • Comitative t'aa-
  • Applicative lhii-
Aspectual derivational affixes
  • Inchoative ta-
  • Imminent ti-
  • Roundtrip kii-
  • Ambulative -t'ajun
  • Begin -tzuku
  • Desiderative -putun
  • Repetitive -pala
  • Again -choqo
  • All -qoju
  • Distal -chaa and Proximal -chii
Derivative affixes
  • Agent nominalizer –nV7
  • Non-agentive nominalizers –ti and -nti
  • Deverbalizer -n
  • Instrumental prefixes paa- and lhaa-
  • Locative prefix puu-
  • Applicative prefix lhii-
  • Comitative prefix t'aa-

References

  1. Huehuetla Tepehua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Huehuetla Tepehua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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