Misantla Totonac

E387947

Misantla Totonac is an indigenous Totonacan language spoken in the Misantla region of Veracruz, Mexico.

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Label Occurrences
Misantla Totonac canonical 6

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican language
Totonacan language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroarea North America
continent North America
country Mexico
documentationStatus limited descriptive materials
dominantContactLanguage Spanish
endangermentCause intergenerational break in transmission
ethnicGroup Totonac
surface form: Totonac people
Glottocode misa1247
GlottologName Misantla Totonac self-link
hasAlternativeName Huehuetla Totonac
surface form: Misantla Totonaco

Totonaco de Misantla
Totonaco de Misantla
surface form: Totonaco de Yecuatla
hasDialect Misantla town variety
Yecuatla variety
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (reported in some descriptions)
hasSyntacticFeature rich system of verbal agreement
ISO639-3 tlc
isPartOf Totonac languages
surface form: Totonac-Tepehua language group
languageFamily Totonac
surface form: Totonacan
languageOf Misantla Totonac people
languageStatus endangered language
severely endangered language
region Misantla region
riskFactor language shift to Spanish
spokenIn Misantla Municipality
Veracruz
central Veracruz
state Veracruz
subfamily Olintla Totonac
surface form: Totonac branch
subjectTo language revitalization efforts
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
head-marking language
verb-initial word order
usedBy indigenous communities in Misantla region
usedIn ritual practices
traditional oral literature
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.

Totonac hasLanguage Misantla Totonac
Totonac languages hasNotableVariety Misantla Totonac
Filomeno Mata Totonac closelyRelatedTo Misantla Totonac
Sierra Totonac hasDialect Misantla Totonac
Misantla Totonac GlottologName Misantla Totonac self-link
Zapotitlán Totonac isDistinctFrom Misantla Totonac