Teojomulco Chatino

Teojomulco Chatino is an extinct Oto-Manguean language, the most divergent of the Chatino languages, formerly spoken in the town of Teojomulco. Belmar (1902) has the only extant data on the language, a wordlist of 228 words and phrases.^[1] It is possible that the speakers who supplied the wordlist were the last speakers of the language, since there were no speakers left by the middle of the 20th century.^[2]

Teojomulco Chatino
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Extinct	early 20th century
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Chatino Teojomulco Chatino
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	teoj1234

Phonology

The following phonemes are based on reconstructions from available data and comparisons with related languages.

Vowels

Current reconstructions of Teojomulco Chatino show it had 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.^[2]

Consonants

Reconstructions show that Teojomulco Chatino had 15 consonants.^[2]

	Bilabial	Alveolar		Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	palatalized			plain	labialized
Stop	p	t				k	kʷ	ʔ
Affricate				t͡ʃ
Fricative		s		ʃ				h
Nasal	m	n	nʲ
Approximant		l			j		w

Teojomulco Chatino has 7 allophones. /t͡s/ is a post-tonic allophone of /s/, and /kʲ/ is an allophone of /k/ in palatalized environments. /gʲ/ occurs in environments that trigger both palatalization and voicing.^[2]