Javier Basulto · @basultomex
60 followers · 66 posts · Server mstdn.social
@linguistics #Mexicanlanguages
Many #Mexican languages are #tonal (particularly the #Otomanguean #languages of the State of #Oaxaca and Central #Mexico). Out of 32 different #Maya languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being #Yucatec Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the #Yucatan Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:
#yucatan #yucatec #maya #Mexico #oaxaca #languages #otomanguean #tonal #mexican #mexicanlanguages
Javier Basulto · @basultomex
237 followers · 443 posts · Server mstdn.social@linguistics #Mexicanlanguages
Many #Mexican languages are #tonal (particularly the #Otomanguean #languages of the State of #Oaxaca and Central #Mexico). Out of 32 different #Maya languages, only 3 or 4 have developed tone as a fixed characteristic, the most prominent one being #Yucatec Maya, spoken by 800,000 people in the #Yucatan Peninsula. Yucatec Maya has different vowel qualities (short, long, reaticulated and glottalized) but only long vowels are affected by tone as shown below:
#yucatan #yucatec #maya #Mexico #oaxaca #languages #otomanguean #tonal #mexican #mexicanlanguages