Highland Totonac
Highland Totonac is a Totonacan language spoken in Mexico.
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Sierra Totonac is a native American language complex spoken in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico. One of the Totonac languages, it is also known as Highland Totonac. The language is best known through the work of the late Herman “Pedro” Aschmann who produced a small dictionary and several academic articles on the language.
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Words in Highland Totonac
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | puscāt | |
| person | CiSku* | |
| name | tapakuwit* | |
| eye | laqastapu* | |
| ear | taqan* | |
| nose | kinkan* | |
| tooth | tacan* | |
| tongue | simaqat* | |
| hand | makan* | |
| blood | qaLni* | |
| bone | lukut* | |
| skin | Suwa* | |
| knee | coqosni* | |
| breast | cikit* | |
| liver | Lwakaka* | |
| water | chu'chut | |
| fire | Lkuyat* | |
| sun | CiCini* | |
| star | staku* | |
| stone | CiwiS* | |
| mountain | sipih* | |
| tree | kiwi* | |
| leaf | tuwan* | |
| night | cisni* | |
| dog | CiCi* | |
| fish | skiti* | |
| louse | skata* | |
| one | tum* | |
| two | tu* | |
| I | kit* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- Papantla TotonacTotonacan89% alike
- Filomeno Mata TotonacTotonacan77% alike
- Xicotepec De Juárez TotonacTotonacan67% alike
- Upper Necaxa TotonacTotonacan63% alike
- Yecuatla TotonacTotonacan55% alike
- Huehuetla TepehuaTotonacan45% alike
Grammar
- Papantla TotonacTotonacan95% alike
- Upper Necaxa TotonacTotonacan92% alike
- Filomeno Mata TotonacTotonacan91% alike
- Isthmus-Mecayapan NahuatlUto-Aztecan90% alike
- Temascaltepec NahuatlUto-Aztecan89% alike
- Isthmus-Pajapan NahuatlUto-Aztecan88% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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