Tecóatl Mazatec

Tecóatl Mazatec, also known as Eloxochitlán Mazatec and Northern Highland Mazatec, is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, notably in the towns of San Jerónimo Tecóatl, Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, San Lucas Zoquiapam, Santa Cruz Acatepec, San Pedro Ocopetatillo, San Lorenzo Cuaunecuiltitla, Santa Ana Ateixtlahuaca, and San Francisco Huehuetlán. Egland^[2] found 76% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec, though SIL reports that speakers of all dialects "have considerable difficulty understanding the prestigious variant spoken in Huautla de Jiménez"^[3]

Tecóatl Mazatec
Eloxochitlán Mazatec (San Jerónimo Tecóatl) (Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca, Puebla
Native speakers	(53,000 cited 2000–2016)[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Popolocan Mazatecan Highland Western Tecóatl Mazatec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: maa – Tecóatl Mazatec pbm – Puebla Mazatec
Glottolog	sanj1286
Acatepec Mazatec is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.

Phonology

Vowels

The San Jerónimo Mazatec dialect contains four vowel sounds; /i e a o/.

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar	Glottal
Plosive		t			k	ʔ
Affricate		ts	tʃ	tʂ
Fricative		s	ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Rhotic		r
Approximant		l	j		w

/w/ may have the allophone /β/.^[4]