Pech language
E530456
The Pech language is an indigenous Chibchan language spoken by the Pech people of northeastern Honduras, now critically endangered with only a small number of fluent speakers remaining.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chibchan language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Paya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pech de Honduras ⓘ Pech-Paya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyAssociatedCulture | Pech culture ⓘ |
| country | Honduras ⓘ |
| countryOfficialLanguageStatus | not official ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Pech people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCode | Glottocode: pech1241 ⓘ |
| hasDomainOfUse |
home
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasEndangermentCause |
discrimination against indigenous languages
ⓘ
lack of intergenerational transmission ⓘ language shift to Spanish ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticDocumentation |
dictionaries
ⓘ
grammars ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
SOV word order
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ |
| hasNeighborLanguage |
Garifuna language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miskito language ⓘ Spanish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPhonologyFeature |
contrastive tone (reported by some sources)
ⓘ
five-vowel system ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
bilingual education projects
ⓘ
community-based language classes ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | pay ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Misumalpan–Chibchan area (areal grouping) ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Chibchan ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers |
declining
ⓘ
few hundred ⓘ |
| region |
Colón Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Olancho Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shiftTo | Spanish ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Honduras
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northeastern Honduras ⓘ |
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedBy | older adults ⓘ |
| usedInTraditionalKnowledge |
ethnobotany
ⓘ
oral history ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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