Huastec

E79459

Mayan language indigenous language of Mexico

Huastec is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in northeastern Mexico, especially in parts of Veracruz and neighboring states.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mayan language → indigenous language of Mexico →
alternateName	Teenek de la Huasteca → Wasteko →
autonym	Teenek → Wastek →
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup	Huastec Maya →
closelyRelatedTo	Chicomuceltec →
continent	North America →
culturalAssociation	Huastec oral tradition → Huastec traditional music →
endangeredStatusSource	UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger →
geographicConcentration	Huasteca region →
glottocode	huas1242 →
hasDialect	Central Huastec → Eastern Huastec → Western Huastec →
hasGrammaticalCategory	aspect-marking → person-marking on verbs →
hasLanguageRegulator	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas →
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom	Spanish →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → glottalized consonants →
hasTypologicalFeature	ergative alignment elements →
historicalSeparationFromOtherMayan	early split →
iso639-3Code	hus →
languageFamily	Mayan language family →
languageStatus	vulnerable →
morphologicalType	agglutinative language →
recognizedBy	Mexican government as national language →
spokenBy	Huastec people →
spokenInCountry	Mexico →
spokenInRegion	northeastern Mexico →
spokenInState	Hidalgo → San Luis Potosí NERFINISHED → Veracruz →
subfamily	Huastecan branch →
usedInDomain	everyday communication → oral literature → traditional rituals →
usedInEducation	bilingual education programs in Mexico →
wordOrder	VSO-dominant →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Huastec ("Western Huastec") → Huastec ("Eastern Huastec") →	hasDialect
Hidalgo → Veracruz →	hasIndigenousLanguages
Mayan languages ("Chontal Maya") → Mayan languages ("Wastek (Huastec)") →	includesLanguage
Huastec ("Huastec Maya") →	belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup
Hidalgo ("Huastec people") →	hasCulturalGroup
Republic of Yucatán ("Maya peoples") →	hasEthnicGroup
Eastern Mexico ("Huastec (Teenek) peoples") →	hasIndigenousGroup
Veracruz ("Huastec people") →	hasIndigenousPeople
Veracruz ("Huasteca Veracruzana") →	hasRegion
Mayan languages ("Wastek (Huastec) branch") →	hasSubfamily
Spanish conquest of Guatemala ("Maya peoples") →	mainAdversary
indigenous peoples of Mexico ("Huastec people") →	majorEthnicGroup
Huastec ("Huastec people") →	spokenBy
Huastec ("Huastecan branch") →	subfamily
Mayan languages ("Maya peoples") →	usedBy