Teenek de la Huasteca

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Teenek de la Huasteca is a Mayan language variety spoken by the Huastec people in the Huasteca region of eastern Mexico.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Teenek de la Huasteca canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Huastec language ⓘ
Mayan language variety ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ
indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ
alternateName Huastec ⓘ
Huastec ⓘ
surface form: Huasteco

Wastek ⓘ
autonym Teenek ⓘ
belongsTo Huastec cultural area ⓘ
country Mexico ⓘ
culturalRole marker of Huastec identity ⓘ
domain Mesoamerican languages ⓘ
endangermentFactors language shift to Spanish ⓘ
ethnicGroup Huastec ⓘ
surface form: Huastec people
geographicCulturalArea Mesoamerica ⓘ
hasDialect Hidalgo Teenek ⓘ
San Luis Potosí ⓘ
surface form: San Luis Potosí Teenek

Veracruz Teenek ⓘ
hasLinguisticResearch documented in descriptive grammars ⓘ
documented in dictionaries ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish ⓘ
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology ⓘ
hasOrthographicStandardization partially standardized orthography ⓘ
hasPhonology contrastive vowel length ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
hasTypology head-marking language ⓘ
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject dominant word order ⓘ
languageFamily Mayan language family ⓘ
languageFamilyBranch Huastecan ⓘ
languagePolicyContext recognized as an indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ
languageStatus vulnerable ⓘ
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith most other Mayan languages ⓘ
region Hidalgo (state) ⓘ
surface form: state of Hidalgo

Veracruz ⓘ
surface form: state of Veracruz

states of San Luis Potosí ⓘ
relatedTo other Mayan languages ⓘ
spokenBy Huastec ⓘ
surface form: Huastec people
spokenIn Huasteca Potosina ⓘ
surface form: Huasteca region

Mexico ⓘ
eastern Mexico ⓘ
subfamily Huastecan branch of the Mayan family ⓘ
usedFor daily communication in Huastec communities ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
traditional rituals ⓘ
usedInEducation bilingual education programs in some communities ⓘ
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.

Huastec → alternateName → Teenek de la Huasteca ⓘ