Proposed language family; perhaps related to Huavean
Subdivisions
Totonac–Tepehua
Mixe–Zoque
Chitimacha ?
Glottolog
None
Totozoquean is a proposed language family of Mesoamerica, originally consisting of two well-established genetic groupings, Totonacan and Mixe–Zoque. The erstwhile isolate Chitimacha was later proposed to be a member. The closest relatives of Totozoquean may be the Huavean languages.[1]
^Brown, Cecil H., Wichmann, Søren, & Beck, David. 2014. Chitimacha: A Mesoamerican language in the Lower Mississippi Valley. International Journal of American Linguistics 80(4): 425–474.
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be a member. The closest relatives of Totozoquean may be the Huavean languages. Comparative proto-Totozoquean reconstructions are proposed in Brown et...
been proposed to be related to, or a member of, the hypothetical Totozoqueanlanguage family. An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador...
explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
(ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) found lexical similarities among Huave, Totozoquean, and Chitimacha. However, since the analysis was automatically generated...
Beck, David; Kondrak, Grzegorz; Watters, James K.; Wichmann, Søren (2011). "Totozoquean". International Journal of American Linguistics 77 (3): 323-372....
American language complex spoken in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico. One of the Totonacan languages, it is also known as Highland Totonac. The language is best...
The Totonacan languages (also known as Totonac–Tepehua languages) are a family of closely related languages spoken by approximately 290,000 Totonac (approx...
David; Kondrak, Grzegorz; Watters, James K.; Wichmann, Søren (2011). "Totozoquean". International Journal of American Linguistics. 77 (3): 323–372. doi:10...
and /o/ are only found in loanwords from Spanish and other indigenous languages Filomeno Mata Totonac at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed...
variety of Totonac. The Totonacan languages have been tentatively grouped with Mixe-Zoque as part of the Totozoqueanlanguage family. They are also included...
considered phonemic. Like other Totonacan languages, Upper Necaxa is a highly polysynthetic agglutinating language, making extensive use of both prefixes...
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