The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac

24) Examples of /y/
[yaastá’a&] ‘sister-in-law’ [yux] ‘it falls from above’
[stay’a&] ‘squirrel’ [s"uy’i&] ‘mosquito’
[looqóy’i&] ‘crane’ [s"kayíw’a&] ‘green’
[k%yaa] ‘I am standing’ [s"yaawá] ‘s/he was standing him up’
2.3.6 Tap /$/. /$/ is a voiced alveolar tap that usually occurs intervocalically or word-initially. It
was borrowed from Spanish and is now used in a very small number of morphemes, most of
them Spanish loanwords, but also in ideophonic sound adverbials and one verbal suffix. It is
included in the subsection on sonorants because it has replaced or alternates with l in some cases,
for example in the iterative suffix –pa!a, which is still –pala in other Totonac varieties such as
Coatepec (McQuown 1990:183).
25) Examples of /$/
[k%a$astiánu] (< Sp. cristiano ‘christian’) ‘person’
[sa$apésa] (