Mochó

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Mochó is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by a small community in Chiapas, Mexico, and considered highly endangered.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
endangered language
alternativeName Mochoʼ NERFINISHED
Motozintlec NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Mam
Tektiteko NERFINISHED
countryOfficialStatus not an official language of Mexico
culturalAssociation Mayan civilization
dominantContactLanguage Spanish
endangermentStatus moribund
severely endangered
ethnicGroup Mochó people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution southern Chiapas
hasDocumentation grammatical descriptions
lexical materials
hasGlottocode moch1259
hasGlottologName Mocho NERFINISHED
hasISO6393Code mhc
hasLinguisticTypology ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking language
hasNeighboringLanguages Mam NERFINISHED
Spanish NERFINISHED
Tojolabal NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent
glottalized consonants present
languageBranch Mamean
languageContactWith Spanish
languageFamily Mayan language family
languageStatusSource Ethnologue NERFINISHED
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative language
numberOfSpeakers very few speakers
primaryWordOrder verb–object–subject
region Sierra Madre de Chiapas NERFINISHED
revitalizationEfforts community-based language teaching
documentation projects
spokenBy Mochó people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Mexico NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Motozintla de Mendoza NERFINISHED
spokenInState Chiapas NERFINISHED
subfamily Western Mayan
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish
usedInDomain home and community communication
usedLessInDomain education
mass media
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Mochoʼ altName Mochó