This paper presents a reconstruction of the phonological inventory of Proto-Totonac-Tepehua (PTT) that differs significantly from previous reconstructions. The chief difference is that the PTT inventory proposed here includes a series of glottalized stops and affricates and does not include a series of laryngealized vowels. It is argued that it is easier to explain the correspondences among cognates in the Totonac and Tepehua languages if the protolanguage includes a series of glottalized stops and affricates. The diachronic changes that are required to account for the distribution of glottalized consonants in the Tepehua languages and laryngealized vowels in the Totonac languages are more natural and less marked under this proposal than under the alternative proposals involving laryngealized vowels in PTT.

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Proto-Totonac-Tepehua 的替代重建

本文提出了对 Proto-Totonac-Tepehua (PTT) 语音清单的重建，该清单与以前的重建有很大不同。主要区别在于这里提出的 PTT 清单包括一系列声门化塞音和塞塞音，而不包括一系列喉化元音。有人认为，如果原始语言包含一系列声门塞音和塞塞音，则更容易解释托托纳克语和特佩瓦语中同源词之间的对应关系。考虑到 Tepehua 语言中声门化辅音和 Totonac 语言中喉化元音的分布所需的历时变化在此提议下比在 PTT 中涉及喉化元音的替代提议下更自然且不那么明显。