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Tepehua, Huehuetla

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: tee

Population	3,000 (1982 SIL).
Region	Northeast Hidalgo, Huehuetla; Puebla, half the town of Mecapalapa.
Language map	Western Central Mexico, reference number 61
Alternate names	Tepehua de Hidalgo, Tepehua de Huehuetla
Dialects	70% intelligibility with Pisa Flores [tpp] (most similar).
Classification	Totonacan, Tepehua
Language development	NT: 1976.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Whistle speech which distinguishes consonants and vowels of the spoken language (Cowan 1952, 1972). SVO; long words, affixes; nontonal. Swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOWER, Bethel, author. 1946. "Notes on shamanism among the Tepehua Indians."

BOWER, Bethel, author. 1947. "La fabricación de panela entre los indios tepehuas."

BOWER, Bethel, author. 1948. "Stems and affixes in Tepehua numerals."

BOWER, Bethel; ERICKSON, Barbara, authors. 1967. "Tepehua sentences."

COWAN, George M., author. 1952. "El idioma silbado entre los mazatecos de Oaxaca y los tepehuas de Hidalgo, México."

COWAN, George M., author. 1972. "Segmental features of Tepehua whistle speech."

COWAN, George M., author. 1976. "Whistled Tepehua."

COWAN, George M., author. 1981. Whistled communication.

HERZOG, Dorothy L., author. 1974. Person, number and tense in the Tepehua verb.  

HERZOG, Dorothy L., author. 1983. Launching a primer from a pre-primer story.

HERZOG, Dorothy L., author. 1983. Training a Tepehua to write primer stories.

Vernacular Publications

Ask'at'a t'ajin (El niño trueno). 2005.

Calakts'iu. 1976.

Ixcuentu ju mistu'. 2006.

Tachi ju xatapu'atalaninin ju mak'alhk'aman. 2006.  

Xacuento ju canoa. 2005.