Northern Pame

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Northern Pame is a variety of the Pame language spoken by the Pame people of central Mexico, distinguished by its own phonological and grammatical features.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Oto-Manguean language
Pame language variety
language variety
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica NERFINISHED
contactLanguage Spanish
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Pame people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Northern Pame language
Pame del Norte NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Oto-Pamean NERFINISHED
hasDialectContinuumWith Central Pame NERFINISHED
Southern Pame NERFINISHED
hasDomain indigenous education
local religious practices
hasFeature complex verb morphology
contrastive tone
distinct grammar
distinct phonology
nasalization contrasts
rich consonant inventory
word-order flexibility
hasGrammaticalFeature derivational morphology on verbs
use of clitics
verb inflection for aspect
verb inflection for number
verb inflection for person
hasLinguisticType tonal language
hasPhonologicalSystem complex consonant system
tonal system
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift toward Spanish
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Pame varieties (partially)
isSubjectOf descriptive linguistic studies
isUsedFor cultural identity expression
languageStatus threatened
partOfLanguageFamily Oto-Manguean languages NERFINISHED
Oto-Pamean languages NERFINISHED
region state of San Luis Potosí NERFINISHED
spokenBy Pame people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Mexico NERFINISHED
central Mexico NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Pame language NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous community
usedIn everyday communication within Pame communities
oral storytelling
traditional rituals

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Pame hasDialect Northern Pame
Pame hasBranch Northern Pame