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Tequistlatec language
Tequistlatec is an extinct Chontal language of Tequisistlán town, Oaxaca. Highland Oaxaca Chontal is sometimes also called Tequistlatec, but it is a distinct language.
Tequistlatec is related to the other Chontal languages of Oaxaca to the south of it, which are sometimes erroneously called "Tequistlatec" also. Tequistlatec proper, as described by Angulo and Freeland (1925), appears to have been closer to the lowland variety than the the highland variety, even though the Tequistlatecs lived farther away from the coast than from the mountains.
Oltrogge and Campbell have proposed that the Chontal languages are related to the Jicaquean languages of Honduras and offered comparative lexical evidence to support their hypothesis.
The phonological inventory includes glottalization contrasts:
Tequistlatec has six phonemic vowels: /i, e, a, ã, o, u/.
Tequistlatec was briefly described by Angula and Freeland (1925). Of the 200 words listed by these authors, more than half have cognates in Highland Oaxaca Chontal and Huamelultec, and in some cases the words are identical across all three languages. Of the remaining words, about 25 are cognate only with Huamelultec, and 19 are cognate only with Highland Chontal. Another eleven terms are similar in the other two varieties but different in Tequistlatec. Finally, 20 words are different among the three languages.
Word list derived from de Angulo and Freeland (1925):
Tequistlatec language
Tequistlatec is an extinct Chontal language of Tequisistlán town, Oaxaca. Highland Oaxaca Chontal is sometimes also called Tequistlatec, but it is a distinct language.
Tequistlatec is related to the other Chontal languages of Oaxaca to the south of it, which are sometimes erroneously called "Tequistlatec" also. Tequistlatec proper, as described by Angulo and Freeland (1925), appears to have been closer to the lowland variety than the the highland variety, even though the Tequistlatecs lived farther away from the coast than from the mountains.
Oltrogge and Campbell have proposed that the Chontal languages are related to the Jicaquean languages of Honduras and offered comparative lexical evidence to support their hypothesis.
The phonological inventory includes glottalization contrasts:
Tequistlatec has six phonemic vowels: /i, e, a, ã, o, u/.
Tequistlatec was briefly described by Angula and Freeland (1925). Of the 200 words listed by these authors, more than half have cognates in Highland Oaxaca Chontal and Huamelultec, and in some cases the words are identical across all three languages. Of the remaining words, about 25 are cognate only with Huamelultec, and 19 are cognate only with Highland Chontal. Another eleven terms are similar in the other two varieties but different in Tequistlatec. Finally, 20 words are different among the three languages.
Word list derived from de Angulo and Freeland (1925):