Teojomulco Chatino

Teojomulco Chatino
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Extinct	early 20th century
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Chatino Teojomulco Chatino; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	teoj1234[1]

Teojomulco Chatino is an extinct Oto-Manguean language, the most divergent of the Chatino languages, formerly spoken in the town of Teojomulco. Belmar (1902) has the only extant data on the language, a wordlist of 228 words and phrases. It is possible that the speakers who supplied the wordlist were the last speakers of the language, since there were no speakers left by the middle of the 20th century.^[2]

Phonology

The following phonemes are based on reconstructions from available data and comparisons with related languages.

Vowels

Current reconstructions of Teojomulco Chatino show it had 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.^[2]

Consonants

Reconstructions show that Teojomulco Chatino had 15 consonants.^[2]

	Bilabial	Alveolar		Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
	Bilabial	plain	palatalized	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	plain	labialized	Glottal
Stop	p	t				k	kʷ	ʔ
Affricate				t͡ʃ
Fricative		s		ʃ				h
Nasal	m	n	nʲ
Approximant		l			j		w

Teojomulco Chatino has 7 allophones. /t͡s/ is a post-tonic allophone of /s/, and /kʲ/ is an allophone of /k/ in palatalized environments. /gʲ/ occurs in environments that trigger both palatalization and voicing.^[2]

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Teojomulco Chatino". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
1 2 3 4 Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016). "Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (4): 393–423. doi:10.1086/688318. ISSN 0020-7071.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Teojomulco Chatino". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[:0-2] 1 2 3 4 Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016). "Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino". International Journal of American Linguistics. 82 (4): 393–423. doi:10.1086/688318. ISSN 0020-7071.