from underwater, Totonac woman and Gulf Smooth-hound swimming in an arc towards each other

#Mermay2025 belongs to the Gulf Smooth-hound from the Gulf of Mexico and the #Totonac people. I was really excited to do #sharks this year. Full description can be found on Kofi: ko-fi.com/i/IB0B61FNT43 #feddraws #mesoart #characterdesign

Temple of the Niches, El Tajín, Veracruz, Mexico.

Temple of the Niches, El Tajín, #Veracruz. Civilization: #Totonac or #Huastec. Its unusual architecture with 365 original niches (same number as the days of the solar calendar) have rendered this building one of the most famous in Mexico. It was constructed in the 7th century CE. 10/11

Na kapala nakg preescolar…
Back to the kindergarten….
Never too late. #totonac #Indigenouslanguages

At the margins: phonology and phonetics of Zongozotla Totonac glottalization Glottal stops and glottalized (“laryngealized”) vowels in Totonac and Tepehua languages are crucial for historical reconstructions, but their phonological and phonetic properties have often posed anal...

How marginal can phonological contrasts be? In Zongozotla #Totonac, phonation type and glottal stops are phonologically contrastive, but they are weakly differentiated phonetically and the glottal stops only surface phrase-finally. #LabPhon #openaccess #marginalcontrast doi.org/10.16995/lab...