1. Family: Uto-Aztecan
  2. Genus: Aztecan

Nahuatl (North Puebla)

WALS coordinates: 20° N, 98° 15′ W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nahuatl
Routledge:
  • Nawa
Other:
  • North Puebla Sierra Nahuatl,
  • N. Puebla Nahuatl,
  • North Puebla Nahuatl,
  • N Puebla Nahuatl,
  • North Puebla Aztec
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Moderately small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average 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 No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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9A The Velar Nasal No velar nasal Phonology
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10A Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones 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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33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix Nominal Categories
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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54A Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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77A Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only Verbal Categories
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78A Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses RelN or NRel Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses NRel or RelN Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 8-8.5 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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