Itzaʼ language
E499783
The Itzaʼ language is a critically endangered Mayan language of the Yucatecan branch, traditionally spoken by the Itza people of Guatemala’s Petén region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Itzaʼ language canonical | 2 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
Yucatecan language ⓘ critically endangered language ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Maya Itzaʼ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lake Petén Itzá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Mesoamerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Yucatecan ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Lacandon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mopan NERFINISHED ⓘ Yucatec Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Guatemala ⓘ |
| culturalDomain |
Maya ritual practices
ⓘ
ethnobotanical knowledge ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ |
| documentedBy | linguists ⓘ |
| endangermentLevel | severely moribund ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup | Itza people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | itza1241 ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| hasDialect | San José Itzaʼ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect-based verbal system
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ noun classifiers ⓘ possessive classifiers ⓘ |
| hasLexicalInfluenceFrom | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| iso6393Code | itz ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Mayan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Eastern Mayan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few fluent speakers ⓘ |
| primaryCommunity | San José, Petén NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | UNESCO ⓘ |
| region | Petén region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionType | lowland Maya area ⓘ |
| shiftedTo | Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Guatemala
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Petén Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Yucatecan branch ⓘ |
| traditionalSpeakers | Itza people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy | Itza elders ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.