Eastern Nahuatl

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Eastern Nahuatl is a branch of the Nahuatl language continuum spoken in eastern Mexico, encompassing several closely related indigenous dialects.

All labels observed (11)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Nahuatl
indigenous language variety
language variety
ancestor Classical Nahuatl
basicWordOrder flexible word order
closelyRelatedTo Central Nahuatl
Western Nahuatl
country Mexico
ethnicity Nahua
surface form: Nahua people
hasAlternativeName Eastern Nahuatl
surface form: Eastern Nahuatl dialect cluster

Eastern Nahuatl
surface form: Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
hasDialect Central Veracruz Nahuatl
Isthmus Nahuatl
Pajapan Nahuatl
surface form: Mecayapan Nahuatl

Eastern Nahuatl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Oaxaca Nahuatl

Orizaba Nahuatl
Pajapan Nahuatl
Highland Puebla Nahuatl
surface form: Sierra Puebla Nahuatl

Sierra de Zongolica Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tehuacan-Zongolica Nahuatl
hasFeature aspect marking on verbs
glottal stop phoneme
locative suffixes
possessive prefixes
rich verbal morphology
vowel length contrast
hasType agglutinative language
languageFamily Aztecan
Uto-Aztecan
languageOf Mesoamerica
macrolanguage Nahuatl
morphologicalType polysynthetic language
partOf Nahuatl language continuum
region Hidalgo
Oaxaca state
surface form: Oaxaca

Puebla
Veracruz
spokenIn eastern Mexico
status vulnerable language
subgroupOf Aztecan languages
Nahuatl
Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
usedFor local trade
oral communication
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (15)

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

Nahuan languages hasPart Eastern Nahuatl
Nahuan languages hasPart Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Nahuan languages hasPart Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Huasteca Nahuatl
Nahuan languages hasPart Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Durango Nahuatl
Nahua traditionalLanguageVariety Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Huasteca Nahuatl
Nahua traditionalLanguageVariety Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
San Cristóbal Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Viceroyalty of New Spain etymology Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: from Nahuatl "Ehécatl-tepētl" or "wind hill" (commonly rendered as "Ecatepec")
Proto-Nahuan ancestorOf Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl
Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Isthmus-Cosoleacaque Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Eastern Nahuatl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tehuacan-Zongolica Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasDialect Eastern Nahuatl self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Oaxaca Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasAlternativeName Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Eastern Peripheral Nahuatl
Eastern Nahuatl hasAlternativeName Eastern Nahuatl
this entity surface form: Eastern Nahuatl dialect cluster