Pisaflores Tepehua
Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico
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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.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
Phonotactics
Pisaflores Tepehua syllable structure is summarized by MacKay and Treschel (2013) as:[3]
- 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/
