Tepehua, Huehuetla

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Tepehua de Hidalgo, Tepehua de Huehuetla

3,000 (1982 SIL). Total Tepehua speakers: 8,880 (2020 INEGI).

Hidalgo state: Huehuetla; Puebla state: half of Mecapalapa town; Veracruz state: northwest.

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6a* (Vigorous).

None known. 70% intelligibility of Pisa Flores [tpp] (most similar).

SVO; long words, affixes; nontonal; whistle speech distinguishes consonants and vowels of the spoken language (Cowan 1952, Cowan 1972).

Grammar. NT: 1976.

Latin script [Latn].