Mexican Penutian languages

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Mexican Penutian languages are a proposed subgroup of the Penutian language family consisting of several indigenous languages spoken in parts of Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mexican Penutian 1
Mexican Penutian languages canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language group
proposed language subgroup
classificationStatus controversial
not universally accepted
country Mexico
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
rich aspectual systems
switch-reference systems
use of relational nouns
hasMember Chontal of Oaxaca
Copainalá Zoque
Huave language
Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of San Francisco del Mar
Huave of San Mateo del Mar
Huave of Santa María del Mar
Isthmus Mixe
Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Lowland Mixe

Mixe languages
Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Mixe–Zoque languages

North Highland Mixe
Chontal of Oaxaca
surface form: Oaxaca Chontal

Oluta Popoluca
San Pedro Huamelula Chontal
Sayula Popoluca
Sierra Popoluca
Zoque
surface form: Soteapan Zoque

South Highland Mixe
Tequistlatecan languages
Popoluca
surface form: Texistepec Popoluca

Mixe–Zoquean languages
surface form: Zoquean languages
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
proposedBy Benjamin Lee Whorf
Morris Swadesh
region Mesoamerica
southern Mexico
spokenBy indigenous peoples of Mexico
spokenIn Chiapas
Oaxaca state
surface form: Oaxaca

Tabasco
Veracruz
status endangered
moribund
studiedBy Lyle Campbell
Terrence Kaufman
subgroupOf Penutian languages
proposed Penutian language family
wordOrder verb–object–subject
verb–subject–object
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Penutian languages hasSubgroup Mexican Penutian languages
Penutian phylum hasSubgroup Mexican Penutian languages
this entity surface form: Mexican Penutian