Huave of San Mateo del Mar

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Huave of San Mateo del Mar is a Huavean language variety spoken by the indigenous Huave community in the coastal town of San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Huave of San Mateo del Mar canonical 3
Huave de San Mateo del Mar 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Huavean language variety ⓘ
Mesoamerican language ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ
associatedWith indigenous rights movements in Oaxaca ⓘ
coexistsWith Spanish ⓘ
country Mexico ⓘ
culturalRole carrier of Huave oral tradition ⓘ
used in traditional ceremonies and rituals ⓘ
endangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Huave community of San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
glottocode sanm1293 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Huave de San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
San Mateo del Mar Huave ⓘ
Wak Tañ ⓘ
hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar ⓘ
Huave of San Francisco del Mar ⓘ
Huave of Santa María del Mar ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature aspectual distinctions ⓘ
person and number marking on verbs ⓘ
rich verbal inflection ⓘ
switch-reference-like constructions ⓘ
hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort bilingual education initiatives ⓘ
community-based literacy projects ⓘ
hasLinguisticDocumentation grammatical descriptions by field linguists ⓘ
lexicons and wordlists ⓘ
text collections and narratives ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature complex syllable structure restrictions ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
ISO6393Code huv (often used for San Mateo del Mar Huave in some classifications) ⓘ
languageFamily Huavean ⓘ
languageIsolateStatus often classified as a language isolate family ⓘ
linguisticArea Oto-Manguean and Mixe–Zoquean contact zone ⓘ
morphologyType agglutinative ⓘ
region Pacific coast of Oaxaca ⓘ
spokenBy Huave people ⓘ
spokenIn Mexico ⓘ
Oaxaca ⓘ
San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
subclassOf Huave language ⓘ
subjectTo language shift toward Spanish ⓘ
typology head-marking language ⓘ
usedFor daily communication in the Huave community of San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
wordOrder basic VSO order with variation ⓘ
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.

Mexican Penutian languages → hasMember → Huave of San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
Huave of San Mateo del Mar → hasAlternativeName → Huave de San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
linked to: Huave of San Mateo del Mar
Huave of Santa María del Mar → hasDialectalRelationWith → Huave of San Mateo del Mar ⓘ
Huave of San Francisco del Mar → hasDialect → Huave of San Mateo del Mar ⓘ