Tzeltal language

E887249

Mayan language indigenous language of the Americas natural language

Tzeltal language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzeltal Maya people in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Tzeltal	2
Tzeltal language canonical	2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mayan language ⓘ indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ
alignmentType	ergative–absolutive ⓘ
belongsToPeople	Tzeltal Maya people NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Chʼol language NERFINISHED ⓘ Chʼortiʼ language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tzotzil language NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	Mexico ⓘ
family	Mayan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ
geographicDistribution	central Chiapas ⓘ eastern Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ highlands of Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ
glottocode	tzel1254 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Batsʼil Kʼop NERFINISHED ⓘ Tseltal ⓘ
hasDialect	Bachajón Tzeltal NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Tzeltal NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxchuc Tzeltal NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Tzeltal NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenejapa Tzeltal NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature	aspect-marking on verbs ⓘ person-marking prefixes and suffixes ⓘ positional verbs ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive glottalized consonants ⓘ tone absent ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticFeature	many speakers are bilingual in Spanish ⓘ
iso639-3Code	tzh ⓘ
languageBranch	Tzeltalan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamilyBranch	Western Mayan ⓘ
languageStatus	recognized indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ vigorous ⓘ
macrofamily	Mayan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
morphologicalType	agglutinative language ⓘ
primaryRegion	Chiapas NERFINISHED ⓘ
primarySpeakers	Tzeltal Maya people NERFINISHED ⓘ
regulatedBy	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenBy	hundreds of thousands of speakers ⓘ
subfamily	Chʼolan–Tzeltalan subgroup ⓘ Tzeltalan branch ⓘ
usedFor	daily communication in Tzeltal communities ⓘ
usedIn	community radio in Chiapas ⓘ local education in Chiapas ⓘ religious practice among Tzeltal Maya ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ
wordOrder	VOS ⓘ VSO ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Tzeltal Maya → usesLanguage → Tzeltal language ⓘ

Tzeltal people → language → Tzeltal language ⓘ

Zapatista movement in Chiapas → languageUsed → Tzeltal language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tzeltal

Misol-Ha → languageRegion → Tzeltal language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tzeltal