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.

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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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Huastec alternateName Teenek de la Huasteca