Itzaʼ language

E499783

The Itzaʼ language is a critically endangered Mayan language of the Yucatecan branch, traditionally spoken by the Itza people of Guatemala’s Petén region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Itzaʼ language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language ⓘ
Yucatecan language ⓘ
critically endangered language ⓘ
associatedPeople Maya Itzaʼ ⓘ
associatedWith Lake Petén Itzá ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica ⓘ
branch Yucatecan ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Lacandon ⓘ
Mopan ⓘ
linked to: Mopan Maya

Yucatec Maya ⓘ
country Guatemala ⓘ
culturalDomain Maya ritual practices ⓘ
ethnobotanical knowledge ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
documentedBy linguists ⓘ
endangermentLevel severely moribund ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Itza people ⓘ
glottocode itza1241 ⓘ
hasBasicWordOrder VOS ⓘ
VSO ⓘ
hasDialect San José Itzaʼ ⓘ
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect-based verbal system ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ
noun classifiers ⓘ
possessive classifiers ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
hasResourceType dictionaries ⓘ
grammars ⓘ
text collections ⓘ
iso6393Code itz ⓘ
languageFamily Mayan language family ⓘ
linked to: Mayan languages
languageFamilyBranch Eastern Mayan ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers very few fluent speakers ⓘ
primaryCommunity San José, Petén ⓘ
recognizedBy UNESCO ⓘ
region Petén region ⓘ
linked to: Petén Department
regionType lowland Maya area ⓘ
shiftedTo Spanish ⓘ
spokenIn Guatemala ⓘ
Petén Department ⓘ
status critically endangered ⓘ
subfamily Yucatecan branch ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers Itza people ⓘ
UNESCOStatus critically endangered ⓘ
usedBy Itza elders ⓘ
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.

Itza Maya → language → Itzaʼ language ⓘ
Yucatecan branch → hasMember → Itzaʼ language ⓘ
Proto-Yucatecan → hasDescendant → Itzaʼ language ⓘ
Proto-Mayan → hasDescendant → Itzaʼ language ⓘ