Yokotʼan
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Yokotʼan is a Mayan language spoken by the Chontal people of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yokotʼan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13299155 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yokotʼan Context triple: [Chontal of Tabasco, autonym, Yokotʼan]
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A.
Takayutpi
Takayutpi was the last king of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Lower Burma, known for his resistance to the expansion of the Toungoo Dynasty in the early 16th century.
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B.
Zunheboto
Zunheboto is a town in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known as the headquarters of the Sumi Naga community and for its hilly terrain and rich tribal culture.
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C.
Yokuda
Yokuda is a legendary, now-sunken continent in The Elder Scrolls universe, known as the ancestral homeland of the Redguards and their warrior culture.
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D.
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake is the Lakota name of Sitting Bull, the renowned Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man who resisted U.S. expansion onto Indigenous lands in the 19th century.
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E.
Hatohobei
Hatohobei is a small, remote coral island state of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, also known as Tobi.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yokotʼan Target entity description: Yokotʼan is a Mayan language spoken by the Chontal people of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico.
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A.
Takayutpi
Takayutpi was the last king of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Lower Burma, known for his resistance to the expansion of the Toungoo Dynasty in the early 16th century.
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B.
Zunheboto
Zunheboto is a town in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known as the headquarters of the Sumi Naga community and for its hilly terrain and rich tribal culture.
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C.
Yokuda
Yokuda is a legendary, now-sunken continent in The Elder Scrolls universe, known as the ancestral homeland of the Redguards and their warrior culture.
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D.
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake
Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake is the Lakota name of Sitting Bull, the renowned Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man who resisted U.S. expansion onto Indigenous lands in the 19th century.
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E.
Hatohobei
Hatohobei is a small, remote coral island state of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, also known as Tobi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chʼolan language
ⓘ
Mayan language ⓘ indigenous language of Mexico ⓘ |
| belongsToPeople |
Chontal people of Tabasco
ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Tabasco
|
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Chontal Maya
ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Tabasco
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Chontal de Tabasco
ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Tabasco
Tabasco Chontal ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Tabasco
Yokotʼan Chontal ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Centla dialect
ⓘ
Macuspana dialect ⓘ Nacajuca dialect ⓘ Tamulte dialect ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | taba1269 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | chf ⓘ |
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | protected under Mexican General Law of Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
ergative–absolutive alignment
ⓘ
rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalization
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ |
| hasStandardizationStatus | partially standardized orthography ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | verb–object–subject dominant order ⓘ |
| isDocumentedIn | linguistic grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Mesoamerican linguistic area ⓘ |
| isRecognizedBy | Mexican government as an indigenous language ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | bilingual education programs in Tabasco ⓘ |
| isThreatenedBy | Spanish language shift ⓘ |
| isUsedFor | daily communication in some Chontal communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| region |
State of Tabasco
ⓘ
linked to:
state of Tabasco
|
| relatedTo |
Chol language
ⓘ
Chontal of Oaxaca (distantly, not Mayan) ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Oaxaca
Chʼortiʼ language ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Chontal people of Tabasco
ⓘ
linked to:
Chontal of Tabasco
|
| spokenIn |
Mexico
ⓘ
Tabasco ⓘ southeastern Mexico ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Chʼolan–Tseltalan branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Chʼolan–Tseltalan languages
|
| usedIn |
oral literature of Chontal people
ⓘ
traditional rituals of Chontal people ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yokotʼan Description of subject: Yokotʼan is a Mayan language spoken by the Chontal people of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.