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Sierra Otomi a.k.a. 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).[2] 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.

Sierra Otomi
Highland Otomi
Yųhų (otm) Ñųhų (otx, otn)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo
Native speakers	(72,000 cited 1990–2007)[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Oto-Pamean Otomian Eastern Sierra Otomi
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 texc1235  Texcatepec tena1241  Tenango
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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 that of Otomi de la Sierra.

Consonants

	Bilabial		Dental		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal	m				n
Plosive	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ	ʔ
Affricate					ts	dz
Fricative	ɸ		θ				ʃ		x		h
Flap					ɾ
Semivowel							j		w

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	oral	nasal	oral	nasal	oral	nasal
Close	i	ĩ	ʉ		u	ũ
Open-mid	e		ø			õ
Mid	ɛ	ɛ̃			ɔ
Open			ɑ	ɑ̃

Orthography

Alphabet

• a - [ɑ]
• a̱, ä - [ɔ]
• b - [b]
• ch - [t͡ʃ]
• d - [d]
• e - [e]
• e̱, ë - [ɛ]
• f - [ɸ]
• g - [g]
• h - [h]
• i - [i]
• j - [x]
• k - [k]
• l - [l]
• m - [m]
• n - [n]
• ñ - [ɲ]
• o - [ɔ/o]
• o̱ - [ø]
• p - [p]
• r - [ɾ]
• s - [s]
• t - [t]
• th - [θ]
• ts - [t͡s]
• u - [u/w]
• u̱, ʉ - [ʉ/ɨ]
• x - [ʃ]
• y - [j]
• z - [z/d͡z]

Other letters

• ą - [ɑ̃]
• ę - [ɛ̃]
• į - [ĩ]
• ǫ - [ɔ̃]
• ų - [ũ]

Tones

Tones are usually not marked.

• a - low tone
• á - high tone
• ǎ - rising tone
• à - falling tone[3]

Notes

References

На других языках

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- [en] Sierra Otomi

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[fr] Otomi de la sierra

L'otomi de la sierra (ou otomi de la sierra orientale) est une langue otomie parlée dans les États d'Hidalgo, Puebla et de Veracruz, au Mexique.

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[ru] Сьерра отоми

Сьерра отоми (Highland Otomi, Ñųhų, Otomi de la Sierra, Sierra Otomi, Yųhų) — диалектный континуум языка отоми, на котором говорят около 70 000 человек в горных районах штатов восточный Идальго, западный Веракрус и северный Пуэбла.

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