Sierra Otomi
| Sierra Otomi | |
|---|---|
| Highland Otomi | |
| Yųhų | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo |
|
Native speakers
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unknown (72,000 cited 1990–2007)[1] |
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Oto-Manguean
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| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Secretaría de Educación Pública |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously: otm – Eastern Highland otx – Texcatepec otn – Tenango |
| Glottolog | east2556 (Eastern Highland)[2]texc1235 (Texcatepec)[3]tena1241 (Tenango)[4] |
Sierra Otomi AKA Highland Otomi (Otomi de la Sierra) is a dialect cluster of the Otomi language spoken in Mexico by ca. 70,000 people in the highlands of Eastern Hidalgo, Western Veracruz and Northern Puebla. The speakers themselves call the language Yųhų (Eastern Highland) or Ñųhų (Texcatepec and Tenango).[5] Lastra 2001 classifies it as an Eastern Otomi language together with Ixtenco Otomi, Tilapa Otomi, and Acazulco Otomi. The three varieties of Sierra Otomi—Eastern Highland, Texcatepec, and Tenango—are above 70% lexically similar; the Eastern Highland dialects are above 80%, and will be considered here.
Distribution
Municipalities with significant Sierra Otomi populations include the following (Dow 2005:236). Many of these municipalities also have Tepehua, Totonac, and Nahuatl speakers.
Phonology
The phonemic inventory given below is based on the particular phonology of the Otomi de la Sierra dialect as documented by Voigtlander and Echegoyen (1985), phonemic inventories of other dialects vary slightly from the that of Otomi de la Sierra.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | ɸ | θ | ʃ | x | h | |||||||
| Affricate | ts | dz | ||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oral | nasal | oral | nasal | oral | nasal | |
| Close (high) |
i | ĩ | ʉ | u | ũ | |
| Open Mid | e | ø | õ | |||
| Mid | ɛ | ɛ̃ | ɔ | |||
| Open (low) |
ɑ | ɑ̃ | ||||
Notes
- ↑ Eastern Highland at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Texcatepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Tenango at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Lastra 2006 p 57, Wright Carr 2005
References
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- Dow, James W. 2005. "The Sierra Ñähñu (Otomí)." In Sandstrom, Alan R., and Enrique Hugo García Valencia. 2005. Native peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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