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“This inventory distinguishes nasal stops /m/ and /n/ from oral stops /b/ and /d/, respectively…/d/ and /b/ occur in complementary distribution with /n/ and /m/, with the oral stops appearing in onsets and the nasals appearing in the codas” (Reilly 2002, 18).

Morpho-Phonological Alterations

Nasalization Processes X. /N-b/ → [m]
 * /N-d/ → [n]

Y. /N-p/ → [m͡b]
 * /N-t/ → [n͡d]
 * /N-k/ → [n͡g]
 * /N-{ʔ,h}V/ → [{ʔ,h} Ṽ]
 * /N-{w,j}V/ → [{w̃, j̃}Ṽ]
 * /N-{s, ʃ}/ → [{z, ʒ}]

Palatalization Processes A. /j-Ci/ → [Ci],/Ci/ → [Cɛ] elsewhere

B. /j-Cɨ/ → [Ci]

C. /j-s/ → [ʃ]
 * /j-t/ → [tʃ]
 * /j-d/ → [dj]

D. /j-[-COR]/ → [Cj]

(Reilly 2005)

Personal aspect markers

“Imperfective aspect is indicated by a proclitic ʔu, and Perfective aspect is indicated by a proclitic maʔ.” (Wichmann via Reilly 2004, 36). “A third aspect functions very much like a future tense, indicated by a suffix –p(ɛʃ)” (Reilly 2004, 36).

Cross-referencing morphology for all possible argument structures (Reilly 2007, 1581)

“The use of a single marker taken from one of the two cross-referencer paradigms is sufficient to indicate the persons and grammatical functions… The GFM [Grammatical function morpheme] system in TEX [Texistepec Popoluca] always uses only a single prefix on a given verb.” This shows a more complex pattern than “simple accusative, ergative or aspect-split pattern”. …”Group X marks the A as Ergative but leaves P unmarked. Group Y marks the Past Absolutive but leaves the A unmarked. Group Z seems to be a separate and autonomous set. This pattern, where sometimes the P is marked and sometimes the A is marked, is called inverse alternation. (Reilly 2004, 53-54)"

(Reilly 2004, 54) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 (talk) 19:01, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

More on vowels
Vowel Phonemes “Long and short vowels are also contrastive in lexical representations as is evident from the following minimal pair:
 * t͡ʃɛːɲ		‘honey’
 * t͡ʃɛɲ		‘shit’

(Reilly 2002, 11)

Numbers in Texistepec Popoluca
Once believed that native words for many numbers had been lost with the assimilation of Spanish, a little known word list compiled by Dr. Eustorjio Calderón in 1892 was lost for some time which now “provides comparative data for number systems used in Oluta, Sayula, and Texistepec, in southern Veracrus, Mexico. The data are surprisingly accurate, considereing that they were collected by a medical doctor who made a hobby of collecting world lists of little-known languages. (Clark 1982, 223)”

“Where I have not actually heard the forms but can reasonably reconstruct them from other data, these are included in the third column in parentheses. (Clark 1982, 225)” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 (talk) 21:18, 2 March 2014 (UTC)