Misumalpan

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Misumalpan is a small family of indigenous languages of Central America, including Miskito and related languages spoken primarily in eastern Nicaragua and Honduras.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Misumalpan canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family ⓘ
language family ⓘ
alternativeName Misumalpan language family ⓘ
Misumalpan languages ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
geographicDistribution eastern Nicaragua ⓘ
northeastern Honduras ⓘ
hasFeature complex system of affixes ⓘ
evidentiality distinctions ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
hasMember Mayangna language ⓘ
Miskito language ⓘ
linked to: Miskito

Sumo language ⓘ
Ulwa language ⓘ
hasSubgroup Matagalpan branch ⓘ
Miskito branch ⓘ
Sumo branch ⓘ
historicalExtent Costa Rica ⓘ
El Salvador ⓘ
Honduras ⓘ
Nicaragua ⓘ
languageBranchOf Macro-Chibchan hypothesis ⓘ
namedAfter Matagalpan languages ⓘ
Miskito language ⓘ
Sumo language ⓘ
region Central America ⓘ
spokenIn Honduras ⓘ
Nicaragua ⓘ
status endangered (for several member languages) ⓘ
subclassOf American indigenous language family ⓘ
typology agglutinative language ⓘ
usedBy Mayangna people ⓘ
Miskito people ⓘ
linked to: Miskito

Ulwa people ⓘ
wordOrder SOV ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Miskito → languageFamily → Misumalpan ⓘ