Wastek

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Wastek is the endonym for the Huastec people and their Mayan language spoken in northeastern Mexico.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Wastek canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
ethnic group
alsoExhibitsWordOrder VSO
belongsToCulturalRegion Huasteca Potosina
surface form: Huasteca
endonymFor Huastec language
Huastec
surface form: Huastec people
ethnicGroupOf Huastec
surface form: Huastec people
hasAlternativeName Huastec
Huastec
surface form: Huasteco

Teenek
hasAncestralLanguage Proto-Mayan
hasDistinctBranchWithinFamily Huastecan languages
hasEthnologueCode hus
hasGlottocode huas1242
hasLanguageFamily Mayan languages
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasStatus indigenous language of Mexico
hasSubfamily Huastec
surface form: Huastecan branch
hasUNESCOStatus vulnerable language
isGeographicallyIsolatedFrom other Mayan languages
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area
languageOfEthnicGroup Huastec
surface form: Huastec people
primaryWordOrder VOS
spokenInCountry Mexico
spokenInRegion Northeastern Mexico
spokenInState Hidalgo
San Luis Potosí
Veracruz
usedInDomain everyday communication
oral literature
traditional religion
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (4)

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

Huastec autonym Wastek
Teenek alsoKnownAs Wastek
Wasteko hasNameVariant Wastek