Pochutec

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Pochutec is an extinct Uto-Aztecan language once spoken in the Pochutla region of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Uto-Aztecan language
extinct language
language
consideredBySomeLinguists divergent Nahuan language
separate branch of Aztecan
country Mexico
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause assimilation policies in Mexico
language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Zapotec people
surface form: "Pochutla people"
extinction 20th century
geographicDistribution limited to small coastal area in Oaxaca
hasAlternativeName Pochuteco
Pochutla Aztecan
hasGlottologCode poch1241
hasGlottologName Pochutec
hasISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
hasLinguisticFeature Uto-Aztecan sound correspondences
complex verb morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between plain and glottalized consonants
hasSource 20th-century field notes
colonial-era wordlists
hasWordOrder tends toward verb-final order
isDistantlyRelatedTo Classical Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl varieties
isRelatedTo Cora
Huichol
Mayo
Opata
Tohono O'odham
surface form: "O’odham"

Pima Bajo
Pipil (Nawat)
surface form: "Pipil"

Tarahumara
Tarahumaran languages
surface form: "Tepehuan languages"

Yaqui NERFINISHED
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
region Costa Chica of Oaxaca
surface form: "Pacific coast of Oaxaca"
researchField Uto-Aztecan comparative studies
historical linguistics
spokenIn Mexico
Oaxaca NERFINISHED
Region of Papaloapan
surface form: "Pochutla region"
status extinct
subfamily Aztecan branch
usedToReconstruct Proto-Aztecan
Proto-Uto-Aztecan
writingSystem Latin script

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

Sena hasDialect Pochutec
this entity surface form: "Podzo"
Pochutec hasGlottologName Pochutec
Nahuan languages hasPart Pochutec
Uto-Aztecan includesLanguage Pochutec