Southern Mam

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Southern Mam is a regional variety of the Mam Mayan language spoken primarily in parts of Guatemala.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Mam canonical 4

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language variety
regional variety of Mam
basicWordOrder VOS
VSO
endangermentStatus vulnerable
hasAlignmentType ergative–absolutive
hasDialectContinuumWith Central Mam
Northern Mam
hasDocumentationType dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasGrammaticalFeature noun classifiers
relational nouns
rich aspect marking on verbs
set A and set B person markers
hasLanguageAcademy Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
hasLanguageCode part of ISO 639-3 mam
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguage Kʼicheʼ
Qʼanjobʼal
Tektitek
surface form: Tektiteko
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absence
glottalized consonants
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish
languageFamily Mayan languages
surface form: Mayan language family
languageFamilyBranch Western Maya
surface form: Western Mayan
partOf Mam macrolanguage
regionType highland language
spokenBy Mam people
spokenInCountry Guatemala
spokenInRegion Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED
Quetzaltenango Department NERFINISHED
San Marcos Department NERFINISHED
western Guatemala
standardizationEffort orthography development by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
subdivisionOf Mam language
subfamily Greater Mamean
Mamean
usedInDomain everyday communication
local religious practices
traditional oral literature
usedInEducation bilingual intercultural education programs in Guatemala
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Mam hasDialect Southern Mam
Mam language hasDialects Southern Mam
Northern Mam closelyRelatedTo Southern Mam
Central Mam closelyRelatedTo Southern Mam