Misumalpan

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Misumalpan is a small family of indigenous languages of Central America, including Miskito and related languages spoken primarily in eastern Nicaragua and Honduras.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Misumalpan canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
alternativeName Misumalpan language family
Misumalpan languages
continent North America
geographicDistribution eastern Nicaragua
northeastern Honduras
hasFeature complex system of affixes
evidentiality distinctions
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasMember Mayangna language
Miskito language
linked to: Miskito

Sumo language
Ulwa language
hasSubgroup Matagalpan branch
Miskito branch
Sumo branch
historicalExtent Costa Rica
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
languageBranchOf Macro-Chibchan hypothesis
namedAfter Matagalpan languages
Miskito language
Sumo language
region Central America
spokenIn Honduras
Nicaragua
status endangered (for several member languages)
subclassOf American indigenous language family
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Mayangna people
Miskito people
linked to: Miskito

Ulwa people
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Miskito languageFamily Misumalpan