Pajapan Nahuatl

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Pajapan Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken by indigenous communities in and around Pajapan in southeastern Mexico.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mecayapan Nahuatl 1
Pajapan Nahuatl canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nahuatl language variety
country Mexico
culturalRegion Mesoamerica NERFINISHED
endangeredFactors language shift to Spanish
limited intergenerational transmission
ethnicGroup Nahua people NERFINISHED
geographicContext Isthmus region of Veracruz NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Pajapan Aztec NERFINISHED
Pajapan Nahua NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Classical Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Proto-Nahuan NERFINISHED
Proto-Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
hasLexicalBorrowingsFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
complex verbal inflection
verb-based polysynthesis
vowel length distinctions
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticSituation pressure from dominant Spanish language
hasType regional variety
isSpokenBy bilingual speakers of Nahuatl and Spanish
languageBranch Aztecan languages
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone of Mexico NERFINISHED
partOf Nahuatl dialect continuum NERFINISHED
region Veracruz NERFINISHED
southeastern Mexico NERFINISHED
sharesFeatureWith other Eastern Nahuatl dialects
sharesVocabularyWith other Nahuatl varieties
spokenIn Pajapan, Veracruz NERFINISHED
nearby communities around Pajapan
subclassOf Eastern Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Mesoamerican language
Nahuatl NERFINISHED
subjectOf language revitalization initiatives in Veracruz
linguistic documentation efforts
usedBy indigenous communities in and around Pajapan
usedIn everyday communication in some households
local cultural practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Pajapan Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Pajapan Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Mecayapan Nahuatl