Southern Mazahua

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Southern Mazahua is a regional variety of the Mazahua language spoken by Mazahua communities in central Mexico, distinguished by its own phonological and lexical features.

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Label Occurrences
Southern Mazahua canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mazahua language variety
regional language variety
belongsTo indigenous languages of Mexico
country Mexico
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mazahua NERFINISHED
hasFeature distinct lexicon
distinct phonology
regional variation
hasLexicalVariationWith Northern Mazahua NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (as in other Otomian languages)
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Mazahua varieties (to varying degrees)
ISO639-3 maz (macrolanguage Mazahua)
isPartOf Mazahua language continuum NERFINISHED
languageBranch Otomian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
region State of Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenBy Mazahua people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
central Mexico
subdivisionOf Mazahua language NERFINISHED
subjectOf linguistic description and documentation efforts
usedAlongside Spanish language
usedBy rural communities
usedIn oral communication
traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mazahua hasDialect Southern Mazahua