Central Huastec

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Central Huastec is a primary regional variety of the Huastec Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in the Huasteca region of Mexico.

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Surface form Occurrences
Central Huastec Teenek 1

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Huastec language variety
Mayan language variety
indigenous language variety
belongsToEthnicGroup Huastec people NERFINISHED
country Mexico
hasAlternativeName Central Huasteco NERFINISHED
Central Wastek NERFINISHED
Huasteco central NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Huastecan NERFINISHED
Proto-Mayan NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasDomain indigenous languages of the Americas
hasISOStatus covered by Huastec macrolanguage
hasLanguageType living language
hasLinguisticClassification Mayan > Huastecan > Huastec > Central Huastec
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
vowel length distinctions
hasScriptUsage Latin alphabet in educational and religious materials
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish is common
hasUsageStatus community language in rural areas
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangered true
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Huastec varieties to a significant degree
isTaughtIn some bilingual education programs
languageBranch Huastecan NERFINISHED
languageFamily Mayan
partOf Huastec language continuum NERFINISHED
Huastecan branch
Mayan language family NERFINISHED
region states of San Luis Potosí and Veracruz
spokenBy indigenous Huastec communities
spokenIn Huasteca region NERFINISHED
Mexico NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Huastec language NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
traditional cultural practices

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Huastec language hasDialect Central Huastec
Teenek hasDialect Central Huastec
this entity surface form: Central Huastec Teenek