Highland Puebla Nahuatl

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Highland Puebla Nahuatl is a modern Nahuan language variety spoken in the highland region of Puebla, Mexico, descended from the Proto-Nahuan language.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
Sierra Puebla Nahuatl 2
Tetelcingo Nahuatl 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nahuatl language variety
Uto-Aztecan language
modern language variety
closelyRelatedTo Central Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Isthmus Nahuatl NERFINISHED
country Mexico
developedFrom Proto-Nahuan language NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Highland Puebla Aztec NERFINISHED
Sierra Puebla Nahuatl NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Nahuan language NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SVO
hasBorrowingsFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Spanish
hasGlottocode high1278
hasGlottologName Highland Puebla Nahuatl NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalOrigin Classical Nahuatl NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code azz
hasLanguagePolicyContext Mexican indigenous language policy
hasLexifier Proto-Nahuan language NERFINISHED
hasMorphologyType polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration absent
glottal stop phoneme
vowel length contrast
hasRegionCode MX-PUE
hasSpeakerCommunityType rural communities
hasStatus regional indigenous language
hasSubstrate Proto-Nahuan language NERFINISHED
hasTypology agglutinative language
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Mexico NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy Nahua people NERFINISHED
isSpokenInHighlandsOf Sierra Norte de Puebla NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
languageGroup Nahuan NERFINISHED
partOfLanguageBranch Aztecan branch NERFINISHED
partOfLanguageFamily Uto-Aztecan language family NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
Puebla NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion highland region of Puebla
subclassOf Central Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Eastern Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Nahuan language NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous communities in Puebla
usedIn local education
oral tradition
religious practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Nahuan ancestorOf Highland Puebla Nahuatl
Proto-Nahuan ancestorOf Highland Puebla Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Highland Puebla Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Sierra Puebla Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Highland Puebla Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Sierra Puebla Nahuatl