Huave of San Mateo del Mar

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Huave of San Mateo del Mar is a Huavean language variety spoken by the indigenous Huave community in the coastal town of San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Huave of San Mateo del Mar canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Huavean language variety
Mesoamerican language
indigenous language
associatedWith indigenous rights movements in Oaxaca
coexistsWith Spanish
country Mexico
culturalRole carrier of Huave oral tradition
used in traditional ceremonies and rituals
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Huave community of San Mateo del Mar NERFINISHED
glottocode sanm1293
hasAlternativeName Huave de San Mateo del Mar NERFINISHED
San Mateo del Mar Huave NERFINISHED
Wak Tañ NERFINISHED
hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar NERFINISHED
Huave of San Francisco del Mar NERFINISHED
Huave of Santa María del Mar NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature aspectual distinctions
person and number marking on verbs
rich verbal inflection
switch-reference-like constructions
hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort bilingual education initiatives
community-based literacy projects
hasLinguisticDocumentation grammatical descriptions by field linguists
lexicons and wordlists
text collections and narratives
hasPhonologicalFeature complex syllable structure restrictions
contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
ISO6393Code huv (often used for San Mateo del Mar Huave in some classifications)
languageFamily Huavean
languageIsolateStatus often classified as a language isolate family
linguisticArea Oto-Manguean and Mixe–Zoquean contact zone
morphologyType agglutinative
region Pacific coast of Oaxaca
spokenBy Huave people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
Oaxaca NERFINISHED
San Mateo del Mar NERFINISHED
subclassOf Huave language NERFINISHED
subjectTo language shift toward Spanish
typology head-marking language
usedFor daily communication in the Huave community of San Mateo del Mar
wordOrder basic VSO order with variation
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Huave of San Mateo del Mar