Guerrero Nahuatl

E265503

Guerrero Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken by Nahua communities in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Guerrero Nahuatl canonical 4
Nahuatl de Guerrero 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nahuatl language variety
indigenous language variety of Mexico
regional language variety
basicWordOrder SVO
flexible word order
ethnicGroup Nahua communities of Guerrero
hasAlternativeName Guerrero Aztec
Guerrero Nahuatl
surface form: Nahuatl de Guerrero
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
noun incorporation
tone or pitch accent distinctions
verb–subject agreement
vowel length distinctions
hasGlottocode guerr1258
hasGrammarFeature derivational verbal suffixes
object marking on verbs
possessive prefixes on nouns
hasISO639_3Code ngu
hasLanguagePolicyContext recognized as an indigenous language of Mexico
hasLanguageStatus minority language
hasLexicalSource Spanish loanwords
hasMorphology polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between plain and glottalized vowels
glottal stop phoneme
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticFeature widespread bilingualism in Spanish
hasTransmissionPattern intergenerational transmission under pressure
hasTypology agglutinative language
isEndangered true
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other central-southern Nahuatl varieties
languageBranch Aztecan languages
languageBranchAncestor Proto-Aztecan
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
languageFamilyAncestor Proto-Uto-Aztecan
languageGroup Nahuan languages
languageGroupAncestor Proto-Nahuan
region central Guerrero
eastern Guerrero
northern Guerrero
spokenBy Nahua
surface form: Nahua people
spokenInCountry Mexico
spokenInState Guerrero
subdivisionOf Nahuatl language
subjectOf descriptive grammars and dialect studies
linguistic documentation projects in Mexico
usedInDomain home and community communication
oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
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.

Nahua traditionalLanguageVariety Guerrero Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Guerrero Nahuatl
Classical Nahuatl hasDescendant Guerrero Nahuatl
Michoacán Nahuatl isDistinctFrom Guerrero Nahuatl
Guerrero Nahuatl hasAlternativeName Guerrero Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Nahuatl de Guerrero