Pisaflores Tepehua is a Tepehua language of Veracruz, Mexico. It is spoken in the towns of Ixhuatlán de Madero and Pisaflores.
Phonology
Consonants + Pisaflores Tepehua consonants Labial Alveolar Alveo-palatal Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Stop Affricate Fricative Approximant
Vowels + Pisaflores Tepehua vowels Front Central Back Close Mid Open
Phonotactics Pisaflores Tepehua syllable structure is summarized by MacKay and Treschel (2013) as:
C (C) V (C (C))
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 C can be any consonant C can only exist if and only if C is a fricative (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/) C cannot be a fricative or affricate (/s/, /ɕ/, /ɬ/, /ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/) If C = /ɬ/, then C cannot be a lateral (/ɬ/, /l/) Nucleus V can be any vowel, long or short Coda C can be any consonant that is not an affricate (/ts/, /tɕ/, /tsʼ/, /tɕʼ/) C can be a bilabial stop (/p/, /pʼ/) in syllable-final positions, but never in word-final positions C can only exist if and only if C = /k/ or C = /ʔ/ C can only be /s/, /ɕ/, or /ɬ/ if C = /k/ C can only be /s/ or /ɕ/ if C = /ʔ/
References
External links
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.