| Tlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatl | |
|---|---|
| Central Nahuatl | |
| Native to | Tlaxcala,Puebla |
| Region | western centralMexico |
| Ethnicity | Tlaxcaltec |
Native speakers | (40,000 cited 1980 census)[1] |
Uto-Aztecan
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nhn |
| Glottolog | cent2132 |
TheTlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatl language, also known asCentral Nahuatl, is aNahuan language spoken by 40,000 people in central Mexico.
It is variously known asCentral Aztec, Náhuatl del Centro, andPuebla-Tlaxcala Nahuatl. In 1990, there were 1,000 Tlaxcala-Puebla Nahuatlmonolinguals.[1]
The following description is that of the Tlaxcala dialect:[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | iiː | ||
| Mid | eeː | ooː | |
| Low | aaː |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | plain | labial | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosive | p | t | k | kʷ | |||
| Affricate | ts | tɬ | tʃ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
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