Tecóatl Mazatec, also known as Eloxochitlán Mazatec and Northern Highland Mazatec, is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, notably in the towns of San Jerónimo Tecóatl, Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, San Lucas Zoquiapam, Santa Cruz Acatepec, San Pedro Ocopetatillo, San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla, Santa Ana Ateixtlahuaca, and San Francisco Huehuetlán. EglandLa inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeo. 1978. Online source found 76% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec, though SIL reports that speakers of all dialects "have considerable difficulty understanding the prestigious variant spoken in Huautla de Jiménez"Eloxochitlán Mazatec
See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.
Phonology Vowels The San Jerónimo Mazatec dialect contains four vowel sounds; /i e a o/.
Consonants LabialAlveolarPalatalRetroflexVelarGlottalPlosivetkʔAffricatetstʃtʂFricativesʃhNasalmnɲRhoticrApproximantljw /w/ may have the allophone /β/.Bull, Brian E. 1983. Constraint-governed rule application: Principles underlying the application of phonological rules in San Jeronimo Mazatec. Linguistics 21. 431-486. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
References
External links Eloxochitlán Mazatec Mazatec of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca. SIL, Mexico.