Isthmus Nahuatl

E659540

Isthmus Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken primarily in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region of southern Mexico.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Isthmus Nahuatl canonical 2
Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nahuatl language variety
indigenous language variety of Mexico
closelyRelatedTo Central Nahuatl varieties NERFINISHED
other Eastern Nahuatl varieties
country Mexico
ethnicity Nahua NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Mecayapan Isthmus Nahuatl NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Classical Nahuatl
hasFeature Spanish loanwords
distinctive regional lexicon compared to other Nahuatl varieties
phonological differences from Classical Nahuatl
hasGlottocode istm1242
hasLinguasphereCode 82-ADA-ae
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature tonal distinctions in some analyses
hasSociolinguisticSituation intergenerational transmission varies by community
under pressure from Spanish
hasType indigenous language
regional variety
hasWordOrder relatively free word order
isPartOf Mexican indigenous linguistic heritage
languageBranch Nahuan NERFINISHED
languageCodeISO639-3 nhk
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan NERFINISHED
languageGroup Nahuatl NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language in Mexico
locatedIn southern Mexico NERFINISHED
nativeTo Isthmus of Tehuantepec NERFINISHED
southern Mexico NERFINISHED
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec NERFINISHED
spokenIn Isthmus of Tehuantepec NERFINISHED
Oaxaca NERFINISHED
Veracruz NERFINISHED
subclassOf Nahuan language NERFINISHED
Nahuatl NERFINISHED
Southern Uto-Aztecan language
Uto-Aztecan language
subjectOf descriptive linguistic studies on Nahuatl dialectology
usedBy Nahua communities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
usedIn everyday communication
oral tradition in Nahua communities of the Isthmus
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Isthmus Nahuatl
Nahuatl hasPart Isthmus Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
plo (Oluta Popoluca) hasNeighboringLanguage Isthmus Nahuatl
subject surface form: Oluta Popoluca