Huamelultec (also known as Huamelula Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca) is one of the
Chontal languages of
Oaxaca
Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...
, Mexico. It is spoken in the Oaxacan municipalities of
San Pedro Huamelula (settlements of Barra de la Cruz, El Bejuco, El Coyul, El Gavilán, El Limón, El Porvenir, Guayacán, Los Cocos, Maximino Cruz (Rancho Maximino Cruz), Morro Ayuta, Paja Blanca, Río Papaya, Río Seco, San Isidro Chacalapa, San Pedro Huamelula, Santa María (Santa María Huamelula), and Tapanala),
Santiago Astata (settlements of La Cotorra, La Tortolita (Fraccionamiento la Tortolita), Santiago Astata, Zaachila, and Zaachilac), and
Tehuantepec (settlement of Morro Mazatán).
The name has been misspelled ''Tlamelula''.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
* /n/ is regularly pronounced as
�when in coda position, unless followed by an alveolar consonant.
* Glottalized sounds /fʼ, ɬʼ/ are also said to have been pronounced as affricates
ɸʼ, tɬʼ
See also
*
Huamelultec vocabulary list on the
Spanish Wikipedia
References
{{Hokan languages
Tequistlatecan languages
Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas