Mochó

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Mochó is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by a small community in Chiapas, Mexico, and considered highly endangered.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mochó canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
alternativeName Mochoʼ ⓘ
Motozintlec ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Mam ⓘ
Tektiteko ⓘ
linked to: Tektitek
countryOfficialStatus not an official language of Mexico ⓘ
culturalAssociation Mayan civilization ⓘ
dominantContactLanguage Spanish ⓘ
endangermentStatus moribund ⓘ
severely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Mochó people ⓘ
geographicDistribution southern Chiapas ⓘ
hasDocumentation grammatical descriptions ⓘ
lexical materials ⓘ
hasGlottocode moch1259 ⓘ
hasGlottologName Mocho ⓘ
linked to: Mochoʼ
hasISO6393Code mhc ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ
hasNeighboringLanguages Mam ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ
Tojolabal ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent ⓘ
glottalized consonants present ⓘ
languageBranch Mamean ⓘ
languageContactWith Spanish ⓘ
languageFamily Mayan language family ⓘ
languageStatusSource Ethnologue ⓘ
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger ⓘ
morphologicalType agglutinative language ⓘ
numberOfSpeakers very few speakers ⓘ
primaryWordOrder verb–object–subject ⓘ
region Sierra Madre de Chiapas ⓘ
revitalizationEfforts community-based language teaching ⓘ
documentation projects ⓘ
spokenBy Mochó people ⓘ
spokenInCountry Mexico ⓘ
spokenInRegion Motozintla de Mendoza ⓘ
spokenInState Chiapas ⓘ
subfamily Western Mayan ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish ⓘ
usedInDomain home and community communication ⓘ
usedLessInDomain education ⓘ
mass media ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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

Mochoʼ → altName → Mochó ⓘ