Tequistlatec language
Tequistlatec was the Chontal language of Tequisistlán town, Oaxaca.
| Tequistlatec | |
|---|---|
| Region | Oaxaca | 
| Extinct | (date missing) | 
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None ( mis) | 
| qrp | |
| Glottolog | tequ1245 | 
Highland Oaxaca Chontal is sometimes also called Tequistlatec, but is a distinct language.
Vocabulary
    
Word list from de Angulo and Freeland (1925):[1]
- gloss - Chontal of Tequixistlan - notes - sky - maa - sun - fonar - sunlight; hot; light, firelight - nyu - day - kina - morning (dawn) - pukia - (? < pu "to go out" + kine "day") - night - pugi - last night - timba - tomorrow - moggi - (cf. pugi "night") - late, late in the day, evening - mui - (cf. tomorrow) - to be late in the day - ka - moon; month - mura - star - lusero (Sp.) - fire - ngwa - ashes - pigg - (cf. stone) - charred wood, coal, charcoal - çna’ - cold - sita - to burn - nas, pi’ - to boil - mb’ula - to dry - hur - earth, soil, land, ground - mas, mats - mountain - mala - stone - pih - salt - weh - sand - puçi - ravine - nya - water - xa - river - pana’ m’am - to bathe - pos - sea - maxa - (cf. water, river) - air - ba - to last, pass - xika - week - çamana (Sp.) - (Perfect) - -pa, -ba - (Continuative) - -ngu (sg.), -mi (pl.) - (Present Future) - -ma (sg.), -me (pl.) - (Imperative) - -ra (sg.), -re (pl.) - (temporal suffix of obscure meaning) - -li - (Andative) - -kiç - (Causative) - -mu - (Impending Future) - -ga (sg.), -ri - high, long - tçogi - low, short - koki - big - be - little - taç, tçofi, tyof - out, outside, outdoors - nia - after - hoy, toy - (also used as "in order to", "with") - one - nula, nuli - two - kwesi - three - fane - four - malbu - five - mage - six - kandjiç - seven - kote - eight - malfa - nine - pela - ten - mbama - eleven - 10 + 1 - twelve - 10 + 2 - fifteen - 10 + 5 - twenty - nuçans - (? < nuli çans "one person") - thirty - 20 + 10 - thirty-five - 20 + 10 + 5 - forty - 2 X 20 - fifty - 2 X 20 + 10 - fifty-five - 2 X 20 + 10 + 5 - sixty - 3 X 20 - eighty - 4 X 20 - hundred - masno - two hundred - 2 X 100 - four hundred - 4 X 100 - yes - akya, oy - not - tçi, tçite - so, positive - oy, ony - much - yeste, yate - like, as - tor - with - ki or k + ... (fusion) - if - or - deer - mar - now used for cattle (at present benadu < Sp.) - horse - kabayu (Sp.) - jaguar - vesma, tigre (Sp.) - dog - tsigi - sheep - siggo - goat - tçibo (Sp.) - hog - kutçi (Sp.) - squirrel - tsetse - rabbit - koneçu (Sp.) - chicken - giti, puyu (Sp.) - probably originally the word for turkey - egg - piyi - parrot - genge, utçu - crow - bo’, pumli - snake - nvofar - lizard - moh - turtle - çiba - fish - tu’u - shrimp - tiçmu - bee - diçir - wax - pasi - honey - kofa - fly - hangwa - scorpion - nyayçpo - tree, wood, plant - eh - grass - pasto (Sp.), ça (doubtful) - leaf - pela - pine-nut - weka - gourd, squash - aba - cactus, nopal - pala - chile, pepper - kasi - sugar cane - pah - plátano, banana - owe, labe - tomato - ngone - corn, maize - kosa’ - bean - r’ane - flower - pipi - person - sans (sg.), sanu (pl.) - man, adult - kwe (sg.), gurbe (pl.) - old man; old - kano - young man, boy, youth; young - muli - woman - tee (sg.), deya (pl.) - old woman - kyopaya - (see "adult") - girl - bata - child (either sex), daughter, son - ’wa (sg.), naske (pl.) - baby, infant (either sex) - çer - husband - pewe - (pi semi-possessive + kwe man) - wife - pete - (pi semi-possessive + tee woman) - paramour - kye - to marry - man, pan, panu - grandfather - kube - (cf. "man") - father - ’ai’, ’yayi’ - mother - mama - elder brother; uncle - sapi (sg.), sarpi (pl.) - younger brother; younger sister - bepo - older sister; aunt - nota - I - ya - thou - ma - he - gge - we - yã - ye - mã - they - re - it - i (sg.), n (pl.) - an indefinite demonstrative pronoun equivalent to "he", "the", "that", etc. - the - al, dal, gal, la - thine - ak - indefinite possessive article - pi - what? - kya - pretty - tçili - grown up, adult - tyopa - (see "old woman") - stranger - gwaya - Chontal - fale - Zapotec - nye - Yalalag - xoço - Tehuantepec - uçia - Oaxaca - pampala - Tequixistlan - al riya - i.e., "the village" - head - fa - neck - nukma - face - ’a - (cf. "head") - eye - ’uh - to see, look - mai, sin, çin - mouth - ko - tooth - ai’ - to eat - te, tes - to drink - sna, çna - to swallow - n’u’, n’uk - to feed a drink - k’ai - to taste good - xana - sweet - çuçki, tçutski - bitter - kwah - poison - çi - tongue - pala - word, language - taygi - to speak, tell, say - go - to ask - n’uma - to sing - ça - to cry - poh, hoh - to call - hoy - nose - ’nali - shoulder - çaye - to have, hold, get - oy, tuç, tçu - (cf. "yes, good, positive") - to lift - bana - to give - kay - to sell - ku’ - to buy - n’a - to steal - nans - to work, make, do - pa, pas, pat - to work - patçu - ("make-have") - to throw - ohm - to hit - na - to put, place - ponf - knee - nyingole - thigh - pate (Sp.) - to go - ’wa (sg.), lye (pl.) - let’s go - endza - to come - pa - to run - nu, nyu - to jump - tsolu - to meet together - kyo, to, tyo - to visit - nulka - to walk - tas - to go with, to accompany - lek, legg - way, road - ne - to go out, to pass - pu - to pass by - kas, ka - to leave, abandon - gansa - to ascend, go up - fha - to bring - ’u - to take out - kan - to send - gah’m - (cf. "to go") - to carry - ’wa - (same as "go") - to stand - kas - to stop - ’ay - to sit - pah, pan - to fall - kye - imperative: ter - hair - fah - (see "head") - flesh, meat - ci’ - hide (of animals) - çimi - (cf. "meat") - leather - baketa (Sp.) - nail - nalu - breast - pare - milk - letçe (Sp.) - belly - kun - back - napo - heart - nusma, nuçma - liver - bi - kidney - rinyon (Sp.) - blood - fas - to be, exist (essentially) - pa - to live, to exist - laç - alive - çax - to die - ma - to bury - muya - to sleep - çma, sma - to awake - çmafa - to wish, will, want - he - to love - fu - to know - çina - to hurt - kwan - to play, to amuse oneself to go visiting (cf. Sp. pasear) - sans - (cf. "people" sans) - thought - fa - to think - fasmu - (thought + Causative) - to cut - ke - knife - nabaxa, kutçilu (Sp.) - to kill - man - (cf. ma "die") - to frighten - çpatsa - hay - sakate (Sp.) - field - nyagga - (< nya "outdoors") - to sow - fa - brown sugar, panela - pana (Sp.) - clothes - tçale, manta (Sp.) - hat - speba - guepil (woman’s blouse) - perkasko - petticoat - bofai - trousers - sarber - shoe - kai’ - to dress - me - house - xur, hur - village - riya - plaza - naxki - (< n’a "to buy") - door - pwerta (Sp.) - table - mes (Sp.) - chair - çila (Sp.) - bench - bangu (Sp.) - bed - kanga - hammock - some - cushion - tifle - cage - xaula (Sp.) - metate - djima - tenate (woven basket) - tapa - petate (straw mat) - pihma - jicara (smalled bowl) - laba - cantaro (jug) - xuti - olla - piçu - apaxtle (cooking stone) - pogo - comal - kwahi - fork - trintçe - spoon - kutçara (Sp.) - plate - pimi - food, meal - tefa, xaybe - bread - in - sugar - asukra (Sp.) - tortilla - skur - chocolate - txura - money - tomi - to dance - soy - church - soykye - (cf. "to dance") - to pray - sa, ça - (cf. "to sing") - santo, idol, sacred, holy - ndyuç, nuç - music - poh 
References
    
- de Angulo, Jaime and Lucy S. Freeland. 1925. The Chontal Language (Dialect of Tequixistlan). Anthropos 20: 1032-1052.
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