| Teojomulco Chatino | |
| States: | Mexico |
| Region: | Oaxaca |
| Speakers: | ? |
| Extinct: | early 20th century |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Zapotecan |
| Fam3: | Chatino |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | teoj1234 |
| Glottorefname: | 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]
The following phonemes are based on reconstructions from available data and comparisons with related languages.
Current reconstructions of Teojomulco Chatino show it had 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/.
Reconstructions show that Teojomulco Chatino had 15 consonants.
| 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 | ||||||