1. Family: Oto-Manguean
  2. Genus: Otomian

Mazahua

WALS coordinates: 19° 25′ N, 99° 55′ W

spoken in Mexico

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Mazahua
Routledge:
  • Masawa
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Large Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio High Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives, implosives, and glottalized resonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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13A Tone Simple tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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examples
130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 9-10 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green vs. blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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