Acazulco Otomi

{{Short description|Otomi language of Mexico}} {{Infobox language | name = Acazulco Otomi | altname = San Jeronimo Acazulco Otomi | nativename = {{lang|oto|Ndöö́ngüǘ yühǘ}} | pronunciation = | states = Mexico | region = Ocoyoacac, Mexico State | speakers = 100–200 | date = 2017 | ref = <ref>Turnbull 2017</ref> | script = Latin | familycolor = oto-manguean | fam1 = Oto-Manguean | fam2 = Oto-Pamean | fam3 = Otomian | fam4 = Eastern | glotto = none | isoexception = dialect }}

'''San Jeronimo Acazulco Otomi''', or '''Ocoyoacac Otomí''', is a moribund and seriously endangered dialect of the Otomi language spoken by a hundred or so people in the town of San Jerónimo Acazulco in Ocoyoacac, Mexico State.

Only people born before {{Circa|1950}} are fluent, and all of them speak Spanish on a daily basis. Acazulco Otomi has been classified as Eastern Otomi by Lastra (2006). It is more conservative, and closer to Eastern Highland Otomi, than its neighboring Tilapa Otomi. There are revitalization efforts underway.

== Phonology == Acazulco Otomi has ejective consonants as well as aspirated stops which correspond to fricatives in other varieties of Otomi, and is similar to reconstructions of the Proto-Otomi language.

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==Sources== * {{Cite web|title=Search results|url=https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/search/Ocoyoacac%20Otom%C3%AD?type=dismax|access-date=2022-12-30|website=The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America|archive-date=2021-08-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831160550/https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/search/Ocoyoacac%20Otom%C3%AD?type=dismax|url-status=dead}} * {{cite book | last = Lastra | first = Yolanda | year = 2006 | title = Los Otomies – Su lengua y su historia|publisher=Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Instituto de investigaciones Antropológicas | isbn=978-970-323388-5 |language=es}} *[http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/36673538/Hernandez-Green_2015_-_Morfosintaxis_verbal_del_otomi_de_Acazulco.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ56TQJRTWSMTNPEA&Expires=1475482198&Signature=tRxX2OkcDJt3zzrvNEbDvdVvLYM%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DMorfosintaxis_verbal_del_otomi_de_Acazul.pdf Hernández Green, N. (2015). Morfosintaxis verbal del otomí de Acazulco. Unpublished PhD thesis in Indoamerican Linguistics at the Centre for Research and High Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico.]{{in lang|es}}{{dead link|date=January 2019}} *Turnbull, R. (2016). [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rory9/papers/turnbull2017b.pdf The phonetics and phonology of lexical prosody in San Jerónimo Acazulco Otomi]. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-32. *Hernández-Green, N. (2016). Registration Versus Applicative Constructions in Acazulco Otomi 1. International Journal of American Linguistics, 82(3), 353-383. *Turnbull, Rory; Pharao Hansen, Magnus & Ditte Boeg Thomsen. 2011, [http://www.cunyphonologyforum.net/ENDANPAPERS/Turnbull.pdf How a moribund dialect can contribute to the bigger picture: Insights from Acazulco Otomí]{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ([http://www.cunyphonologyforum.net/ENDANAUDIO/Turnbull.mp3 audio of presentation]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}) *[https://www.scribd.com/doc/36271410/Otomi-Text-Book ''Ndöö́ngüǘ yühǘ: Guía de aprendizaje principiante del idioma otomí de San Jerónimo Acazulco, Estado de México'']{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *Pharao Hansen, M., Hernández-Green, N., Turnbull, R., & Thomsen, D. B. (2016). [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rory9/papers/pharaohansenetal2016.pdf Life histories, language attitudes and linguistic variation: Navigating the micropolitics of language revitalization in an Otomí community in Mexico.] In Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts. De Gruyter Mouton. *Pharao Hansen, Magnus. 2012. [https://brown.academia.edu/MagnusPharaoHansen/Papers/1529881/Kinship_in_the_Past_Tense_Language_Care_and_Cultural_Memory_in_a_Mexican_Community Kinship in the Past Tense: Language, Care and Cultural Memory in a Mexican Community]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *Pharao Hansen, Magnus; Turnbull, Rory & Ditte Boeg Thomsen. 2011, [http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5187 From academic salvage linguistics to community-based documentation in only three weeks: Report from a collective and interdisciplinary fieldwork on Acazulco Otomi]

== External links ==

* Audio recordings of [https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:132145 minimal pairs] and [https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:132144 vocabulary] in Acazulco Otomí in the [https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla:124414 Mexican Languages Collection of Yolanda Lastra] in The Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America

Category:Otomi language Category:Endangered Oto-Manguean languages