Texcatepec Otomi

Sierra Otomi
Highland Otomi
Yųhų
Native to	Mexico
Region	Puebla, Veracruz, Hidalgo
Native speakers	(72,000 cited 1990–2007)
Language family	Oto-Manguean Oto-Pamean Otomian Eastern Sierra Otomi
Official status
Regulated by	Secretaría de Educación Pública
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: otm – Eastern Highland otx – Texcatepec otn – Tenango
Glottolog	east2556  (Eastern Highland) texc1235  (Texcatepec) tena1241  (Tenango)
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Sierra Otomi AKA Highland Otomi (Otomi de la Sierra) is a dialect cluster of the Otomi language spoken in Mexico by ca. 70,000 people in the highlands of Eastern Hidalgo, Western Veracruz and Northern Puebla. The speakers themselves call the language Yųhų (Eastern Highland) or Ñųhų (Texcatepec and Tenango). Lastra 2001 classifies it as an Eastern Otomi language together with Ixtenco Otomi, Tilapa Otomi, and Acazulco Otomi. The three varieties of Sierra Otomi—Eastern Highland, Texcatepec, and Tenango—are above 70% lexically similar; the Eastern Highland dialects are above 80%, and will be considered here.

Municipalities with significant Sierra Otomi populations include the following (Dow 2005:236). Many of these municipalities also have Tepehua, Totonac, and Nahuatl speakers.

The phonemic inventory given below is based on the particular phonology of the Otomi de la Sierra dialect as documented by Voigtlander and Echegoyen (1985), phonemic inventories of other dialects vary slightly from that of Otomi de la Sierra.

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