Annotated Swadesh wordlists for the Tequistlatecan group (Hokan family).
Languages included: Chontal, Highland Oaxaca [teq-hch].
DATA SOURCES
Main sources
Turner & Turner 1971 = Turner, Paul; Turner, Shirley. Chontal to Spanish-English Spanish to Chontal Dictionary. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press. // A dictionary of Highland Chontal. Textual examples in the dictionary seem to be constructed by the authors rather than taken from real texts.
Additional sources
NT 2009 = Lataiqui' loya'apa iɫe al c'a lixpic'epa ȽanDios. El Nuevo Testamento en el chontal de la sierra de Oaxaca. La Liga Bíblica versión electrónica 2009 // A Highland Chontal translation of the New Testament. Available online at http://www.scriptureearth.org
O'Connor 2007 = O’Connor, Loretta. Motion, transfer and transformation: the grammar of change in lowland Chontal. (Studies in Language Companion Series, v. 95) Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company // A monograph on the Lowland Chontal verbs, describing change of location, position and state. Contains a short grammatical sketch of Lowland Chontal.
Turner 1966 = Turner, Paul R. Highland Chontal Grammar. An unpublished PhD dissertation. The University of Chicago // A grammar of Highland Chontal, written in the tagmemic framework.
Turner 1973 = Turner, Paul R. Highland Chontal Dialect Survey. In: Linguistics. Volume 11 (1973), Issue 104, pp. 95–104 // A report on the survey of Highland Chontal dialects.
Waterhouse 1969 = Waterhouse, Viola. Oaxaca Chontal in Reference to Proto-Chontal. In: International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jul., 1969), pp. 231-233 // An article about Proto-Chontal reconstruction.
NOTES
Transliteration.
The Highland Chontal orthography (in the first column) and phonetic transcription (in the second column) used in [Turner & Turner 1971] are transliterated as follows:
| a | a, A | a |
| b | b | b |
| c | s | s |
| c | k, kh | k |
| c´ | k´ | kʼ |
| ch | tš | č |
| ch´ | tš´ | čʼ |
| d | d | d |
| d | đ | ð |
| e | e, E | e |
| f | f | f |
| f´ | f´ | fʼ |
| g | g | g |
| h | ʔ | ʔ |
| i | i, I | i |
| j | h | h |
| jn | Nn | n̥n (before consonant) |
| jn | hn | hn (before vowel) |
| jm | Mm | m̥m (before consonant) |
| jm | hm | hm (before vowel) |
| jη | N̯η | ŋ̥ŋ (before consonant) |
| jη | hη | hŋ (before vowel) |
| ju | W | ʍ |
| l | l | l |
| ɫ | ɫ | ɬ |
| ɫ´ | tɫ´ | ƛʼ |
| ll | y | y |
| l.l | ll | ll |
| m | m | m |
| n | n | n |
| η | η | ŋ |
| o | o, O | o |
| p | p | p |
| qu | k | k |
| q´u | k´ | kʼ |
| r | ř | r |
| s | s | s |
| x | š | š |
| t | t | t |
| ts | ts | c |
| ts´ | ts´ | cʼ |
| u | u, U | u |
| v | ƀ | β |
| w | w | w |
| y | y | y |
| z | s | s |
Database compiled by: M. Zhivlov (April 2012).