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

Nahuatl (North Puebla)

WALS coordinates: 20° N, 98° 15′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Nahuatl
Routledge:
  • Nawa
Other:
  • North Puebla Sierra Nahuatl,
  • N. Puebla Nahuatl,
  • North Puebla Nahuatl,
  • N Puebla Nahuatl,
  • North Puebla Aztec
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories Small (2-4)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other
Uvular Consonants None
Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels None
Syllable Structure Moderately complex
Tone No tones
Absence of Common Consonants All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns Binary politeness distinction
Distributive Numerals Marked by reduplication
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality Indirect only
Coding of Evidentiality Separate particle
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb SV
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adjective and Noun No dominant order
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Mixed
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun Other
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun Other
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Lexicon
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6
Number of Basic Colour Categories 8-8.5
Green and Blue Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow