Proto-Nahuan
E159839
Proto-Nahuan is the reconstructed common ancestor language of the Nahuan (including Nahuatl) language family of Mesoamerica.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proto-Nahuan canonical | 5 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Uto-Aztecan language
ⓘ
proto-language ⓘ reconstructed language ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Central Nahuatl varieties
ⓘ
Eastern Nahuatl varieties ⓘ Highland Puebla Nahuatl ⓘ Huasteca Nahuatl ⓘ Eastern Nahuatl ⓘ
surface form:
Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Michoacán Nahuatl ⓘ Nahuatl ⓘ Pipil people ⓘ
surface form:
Pipil
Highland Puebla Nahuatl ⓘ
surface form:
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Western Nahuatl varieties ⓘ |
| branchOf | Aztecan languages ⓘ |
| glottocode | none ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Classical Nahuatl
ⓘ
Modern Nahuatl dialects ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
absolutive suffix on nouns
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ complex verb morphology ⓘ derivational verb morphology ⓘ glottal stop phoneme ⓘ noun incorporation ⓘ object suffixes on verbs ⓘ polysynthetic morphology ⓘ possessive prefixes ⓘ productive compounding ⓘ subject prefixes on verbs ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticAlignment | nominative-accusative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive long and short vowels
ⓘ
nasal consonants ⓘ series of voiceless stops ⓘ |
| influenced | lexicon of Classical Nahuatl ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | none ⓘ |
| partOf |
Uto-Aztecan
ⓘ
surface form:
Uto-Aztecan language family
|
| reconstructedBy |
comparative method
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Proto-Uto-Aztecan ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Mesoamerica ⓘ |
| status |
reconstructed
ⓘ
unattested ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Mesoamerican historical linguistics
ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan comparative studies ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Nahuan languages
ⓘ
Southern Uto-Aztecan ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
|
| timeDepth | pre-Columbian era ⓘ |
| writingSystem | none ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.