Ayapa Zoque (Tabasco Zoque)

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Ayapa Zoque (Tabasco Zoque) is a highly endangered Zoquean language of southern Mexico, traditionally spoken in the community of Ayapa in the state of Tabasco.

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Ayapa Zoque 0

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instanceOf Zoquean language
endangered language
indigenous language of Mexico
language
alternateName Ayapaneco NERFINISHED
Tabasco Zoque NERFINISHED
classifiedAs separate language from other Zoque varieties
country Mexico
endangermentStatus highly endangered
severely endangered
hasDomainOfUse home and community contexts
hasGlottocode taba1269
hasLinguisticFeature aspect-based verbal system
ergative alignment in some constructions
prefixal person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
hasNeighboringLanguages Spanish NERFINISHED
other Zoquean varieties
hasNumberOfSpeakers very few fluent speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasStatusInMexico recognized indigenous language
hasTransmissionStatus intergenerational transmission largely interrupted
hasWordOrder verb–object–subject (VOS)
verb–subject–object (VSO)
ISO639-3 zoq
isPartOf Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Zoquean
region southern Mexico NERFINISHED
riskFactor dominance of Spanish in education and media
very small speaker population
spokenIn Ayapa, Tabasco, Mexico NERFINISHED
state Tabasco NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Mixe–Zoque language family NERFINISHED
subjectOf language documentation projects
revitalization efforts
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish
traditionalCommunity Ayapa NERFINISHED
usedBy Zoquean indigenous community of Ayapa NERFINISHED
usedIn oral tradition of Ayapa community
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Zoque people hasLanguage Ayapa Zoque (Tabasco Zoque)