Orizab Nahuatl

Orizaban Nahuatl
Orizaban Nahuatl
Self name	Āwillisāpan Nāwatl
Countries	Mexico
Regions	Veracruz
Total number of speakers	120,000 (1991)
Classification
	Uto-Astek languagesAstek languagesDialects of Central NahuatlTehuacan Songolikan NahuatlOrizaban Nahuatl
Writing	latin
Language Codes
ISO 639-1	-
ISO 639-2	-
ISO 639-3	nlv
Ethnologue
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Orizaba Nahuatl ( Náhuatl de la Sierra de Zongolica, Orizaba Aztec, Orizaba Nahuatl ) is a native American language spoken in the southeast of Veracruz south of the city of Orizaba in Mexico. The Orisaban dialect has 79% lexical similarity to the Morelos dialect Nahuatl. It has an Isuatlian dialect spoken in the same city north of Orizaba. There are several elementary schools and one high school that use this language along with Spanish.

Content

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Vowels
- 1.2 Consonants
2 notes
3 References

Phonology

Vowels

Brief	Front row	Back row
Top lift	i
Mid-upper rise		o
Mid-low rise	e
Lower rise	a

Long	Front row	Back row
Top lift	ī
Mid-upper rise	ē	ō
Mid-low rise
Lower rise	ā

Consonants

Consonants ^[1]	Lip.	Apik.	Postalveolar.	Velar.		Gulp.
Consonants ^[1]	Lip.	Apik.	Postalveolar.	Undeath	Ruined	Gulp.
Explosion.	p / p /	t / t /		k / k /	kw / kʷ /	h
Affre		ts / ts /	ch / tʃ /
Lateral. affr.		tl / tɬ /
Fricat.		s / s /	x			g / γ /
Plav.		l
Nose.	m / m /	n / n ~ ŋ /
Half-vowels	w / w ~ β ~ ɸ /		y / j /

Notes

↑ The Phonemes of Orizaba Nahuatl . International Journal of American Linguistics. Date of appeal October 16, 2013.

Links

Orizaban Nahuatl at Ethnologue

[1] The Phonemes of Orizaba Nahuatl . International Journal of American Linguistics. Date of appeal October 16, 2013.