Huave of Santa María del Mar

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

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Huave of Santa María del Mar canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Huave language variety
indigenous language variety
language variety
associatedWithMunicipality Santa María del Mar, Oaxaca NERFINISHED
associatedWithPeople Huave community of Santa María del Mar NERFINISHED
belongsTo Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
continent North America
country Mexico
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Huave NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Huave de Santa María del Mar NERFINISHED
Ombeayiüts (local autonym, variety of)
Santa María del Mar Huave NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Huave identity in Santa María del Mar
hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar NERFINISHED
Huave of San Francisco del Mar NERFINISHED
Huave of San Mateo del Mar NERFINISHED
hasDomain coastal fishing communities
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature Mesoamerican areal traits
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticSituation intergenerational transmission weakening
indigenousTo Mexico NERFINISHED
Oaxaca NERFINISHED
isolateWithin Huave language family NERFINISHED
languageFamily Huave NERFINISHED
languageFamilyStatus language isolate
languageStatus endangered language
morphologicalType agglutinative language
partOf Huave language continuum NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder verb–subject–object
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec NERFINISHED
spokenBy Huave people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
Oaxaca NERFINISHED
Santa María del Mar NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Huave language NERFINISHED
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
usedAlongside Spanish
usedFor oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn everyday communication within the Huave community of Santa María del Mar
usedInEducation limited bilingual education and literacy efforts
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Huave of Santa María del Mar