Yokotʼan

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Yokotʼan is a Mayan language spoken by the Chontal people of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico.

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Yokotʼan canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chʼolan language
Mayan language
indigenous language of Mexico
belongsToPeople Chontal people of Tabasco NERFINISHED
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Chontal Maya NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Chontal de Tabasco NERFINISHED
Tabasco Chontal NERFINISHED
Yokotʼan Chontal NERFINISHED
hasDialect Centla dialect NERFINISHED
Macuspana dialect
Nacajuca dialect NERFINISHED
Tamulte dialect NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode taba1269
hasISO6393Code chf
hasLanguagePolicyContext protected under Mexican General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
tone absent
hasStandardizationStatus partially standardized orthography
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject dominant order
isDocumentedIn linguistic grammars and dictionaries
isEndangered true
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
isRecognizedBy Mexican government as an indigenous language
isTaughtIn bilingual education programs in Tabasco
isThreatenedBy Spanish language shift
isUsedFor daily communication in some Chontal communities
languageFamily Mayan language family NERFINISHED
languageStatus vulnerable
region State of Tabasco NERFINISHED
relatedTo Chol language NERFINISHED
Chontal of Oaxaca (distantly, not Mayan) NERFINISHED
Chʼortiʼ language NERFINISHED
spokenBy Chontal people of Tabasco NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico
Tabasco NERFINISHED
southeastern Mexico
subfamily Chʼolan–Tseltalan branch NERFINISHED
usedIn oral literature of Chontal people
traditional rituals of Chontal people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Chontal of Tabasco autonym Yokotʼan