Abstract
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Huastec is a Mayan language spoken since pre-Hispanic times in the Huasteca region, far away from the rest of its linguistic family located in the “Mayan Region”.1 The auto-denomination of Huastec language is tenek, but this term is not used for practical reasons since “Huastec” is the name used in the academic field
In 2007, Ochoa wrote some notes about Huastec dialectology and she suggested a new subdivision of the Veracruzano dialect into two “sub-dialects”, i.e. Lomerío, and Serrano u Otontepec
Based on lexical and phonological data, Kaufman suggested that the differentiation between the Huastec dialects occurred in recent times
Summary
Huastec is a Mayan language spoken since pre-Hispanic times in the Huasteca region, far away from the rest of its linguistic family located in the “Mayan Region”.1 The auto-denomination of Huastec language is tenek, but this term is not used for practical reasons since “Huastec” is the name used in the academic field. The research focuses on the fact that some morphological features regarding the person system tend to overlap isoglosses in a regular way in the Central and Potosino dialects (see Map 2). 4 The intention of this research is not to propose a new dialectal grouping, but to reveal the current diversification in the Huastec language These findings could be the basis for more academic research either in the field of dialectology or in the linguistic documentation of the variants, especially those that are seriously threatened and had not been yet described or documented. These findings could be the basis for more academic research either in the field of dialectology or in the linguistic documentation of the variants, especially those that are seriously threatened and had not been yet described or documented. 5
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