Teojomulco Chatino is an extinct Oto-Manguean language, the most divergent of the Chatino languages, formerly spoken in the town of Teojomulco. Belmar (1902) has the only extant data on the language, a wordlist of 228 words and phrases.[1] It is possible that the speakers who supplied the wordlist were the last speakers of the language, since there were no speakers left by the middle of the 20th century.[2]
| Teojomulco Chatino | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
| Extinct | early 20th century |
Language family | Oto-Manguean
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | teoj1234 |
The following phonemes are based on reconstructions from available data and comparisons with related languages.
Current reconstructions of Teojomulco Chatino show it had 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.[2]
Reconstructions show that Teojomulco Chatino had 15 consonants.[2]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | palatalized | plain | labialized | |||||
| Stop | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | nʲ | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||
Teojomulco Chatino has 7 allophones. /t͡s/ is a post-tonic allophone of /s/, and /kʲ/ is an allophone of /k/ in palatalized environments. /gʲ/ occurs in environments that trigger both palatalization and voicing.[2]