The Consonants of Mösiehuali

(Tetelcingo Nahuatl)

The Mösiehuali language has the following set of consonants:

The consonants which appear in red on the chart are those that occur in Nahuatl generally. Those which appear on the chart in gray and between parentheses occur almost exclusively in Spanish loan words.

The orthography used in the Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo represents these consonants with the letters shown in the following chart:

The semi-consonant w is labial when it precedes a front vowel. It is written b in those cases. It is voiceless when it follows a voiceless consonant; the labial variant in this case is written as f. For example bejfeyi = /wehweyI/ big (pl.). When the velar variant hu [w] occurs following a j [h], the combination is written ju, and when w occurs between o and a, it is not written at all. For instance, huajuanoa /wahwano(w)a/ it (a dog) barks.

--David Tuggy

See also:

• A greeting in Mösiehuali
• See how to build the following long word in Mösiehuali: nehualmoyecastemojmolunijtzinutinemisquiöni.
• Mösiehuali vowels
• Spanish borrowings in Mösiehuali
• Mösiehuali honorifics

• Nahuatl consonants
• Syllables and accent in Nahuatl
• Nahuatl orthographies

• Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo
• Richard S. Pittman's "The Phonemes of Tetelcingo (Morelos) Nahuatl" gives more information about the vowels and consonants of Mösiehuali.