Huehuetla Tepehua
Huehuetla Tepehua is a moribund Tepehua language spoken in Huehuetla, northeastern Hidalgo, Mexico. There are fewer than 1,500 speakers left according to Susan Smythe Kung.Syntax
Word order tends to be VSO, although it can be SVO at times.Phonology
Consonants
The voiced stops /b/, /d/, and /g/, as well as the flap /ɾ/ and the trill /r/, appear only in loanwords and ideophones. In younger speakers, the uvular /q/ has merged with the glottal stop /ʔ/.Vowels
Morphology
Huehuetla Tepehua has a large variety of affixes.
;Valency-changing affixes
- Reflexive -kan
- Reciprocal laa-
- Dative -ni
- Causative maa-
- Instrumental puu-
- Comitative t'aa-
- Applicative lhii-
;Aspectual derivational affixes
- Inchoative ta-
- Imminent ti-
- Roundtrip kii-
- Ambulative -t'ajun
- Begin -tzuku
- Desiderative -putun
- Repetitive -pala
- Again -choqo
- All -qoju
- Distal -chaa and Proximal -chii
;Derivative affixes
- Agent nominalizer –nV7
- Non-agentive nominalizers –ti and -nti
- Deverbalizer -n
- Instrumental prefixes paa- and lhaa-
- Locative prefix puu-
- Applicative prefix lhii-
- Comitative prefix t'aa-
