Southern Mam

E411184

Southern Mam is a regional variety of the Mam Mayan language spoken primarily in parts of Guatemala.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Mam canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language variety ⓘ
regional variety of Mam ⓘ
basicWordOrder VOS ⓘ
VSO ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
hasAlignmentType ergative–absolutive ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Central Mam ⓘ
Northern Mam ⓘ
hasDocumentationType dictionaries ⓘ
grammars ⓘ
text collections ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature noun classifiers ⓘ
relational nouns ⓘ
rich aspect marking on verbs ⓘ
set A and set B person markers ⓘ
hasLanguageAcademy Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ
hasLanguageCode part of ISO 639-3 mam ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguage Kʼicheʼ ⓘ
Qʼanjobʼal ⓘ
Tektiteko ⓘ
linked to: Tektitek
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absence ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish ⓘ
languageFamily Mayan language family ⓘ
linked to: Mayan languages
languageFamilyBranch Western Mayan ⓘ
linked to: Western Maya
partOf Mam macrolanguage ⓘ
regionType highland language ⓘ
spokenBy Mam people ⓘ
spokenInCountry Guatemala ⓘ
spokenInRegion Huehuetenango Department ⓘ
Quetzaltenango Department ⓘ
San Marcos Department ⓘ
western Guatemala ⓘ
standardizationEffort orthography development by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala ⓘ
subdivisionOf Mam language ⓘ
subfamily Greater Mamean ⓘ
Mamean ⓘ
usedInDomain everyday communication ⓘ
local religious practices ⓘ
traditional oral literature ⓘ
usedInEducation bilingual intercultural education programs in Guatemala ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Mam → hasDialect → Southern Mam ⓘ
Mam language → hasDialects → Southern Mam ⓘ
Northern Mam → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Mam ⓘ
Central Mam → closelyRelatedTo → Southern Mam ⓘ