Huehuetla Tepehua

Huehuetla Tepehua
South Tepehua
Native to Mexico
Region northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico
Native speakers
unknown (3,000 cited 1982)[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 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
Aspectual derivational affixes
Derivative affixes

References

  1. Huehuetla Tepehua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Huehuetla Tepehua". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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