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Mexico (Yucatán)

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Mexico · Yucatán Peninsula / Maya Contact

Maya-substrate contact gives Yucatecan Spanish glottal stops in place of dropped codas, occlusive /b d g/ that resist softening, and a lengthened, distinctively rising phrase-final intonation. (Yucatecan Spanish is also documented realizing word-final /n/ closer to [m] in some words, a lexical-phonetic detail this matrix does not model directly.)

Glottal stop insertion (Maya substrate)/b d g/ resist lenition, stay occlusivePhrase-final syllable lengtheningDistinctive rising intonation (Maya-influenced)

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FeatureValueMeaningDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalicstandardDrill
B D G Fortitionb_d_g_fortitionYesDrill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_dropmoderateDrill
Glottal Stop Insertionglottal_stop_insertionYesDrill
Intonation Contourintonation_contourandean_risingDrill
Final Syllable Lengtheningfinal_syllable_lengtheningYesDrill