| Tecóatl Mazatec | |
| Also Known As: | (San Jerónimo Tecóatl) |
| Nativename: | Eloxochitlán Mazatec (Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón) |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Oaxaca, Puebla |
| Date: | 2000–2016 |
| Ref: | e21 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam3: | Mazatecan |
| Fam4: | Highland |
| Fam5: | Western |
| Lc1: | maa |
| Ld1: | Tecóatl Mazatec |
| Lc2: | pbm |
| Ld2: | Puebla Mazatec |
| Glotto: | sanj1286 |
| Glottorefname: | San Jeronimo Tecoatl 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[1] 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"[2]
See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.
The San Jerónimo Mazatec dialect contains four vowel sounds; /i e a o/.
| 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 |