Huave of San Dionisio del Mar

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Huave of San Dionisio del Mar is a variety of the Huave language spoken by the indigenous Huave community in the coastal town of San Dionisio del Mar in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Huave language variety
indigenous language variety
language variety
country Mexico
documentationStatus described in linguistic fieldwork studies
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Huave people
geographicFeature Pacific coast of Oaxaca
hasAlternativeName Huave de San Dionisio del Mar
Ombeyajts
San Dionisio del Mar Huave
hasCulturalAssociation Huave maritime culture
Huave ritual practices
hasDomain indigenous education
language revitalization efforts
hasFeature complex verbal morphology
rich aspectual system
use of clitics
hasMorphologicalFeature derivational verbal morphology
person and number marking on verbs
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasSpeakerCommunityType indigenous coastal community
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order (with variation)
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith some other Huave varieties
ISO639Status covered under Huave macrolanguage codes
isPartOf Huave language continuum
languageFamily Huave
languageStatus endangered language variety
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
neighborLanguage Spanish
Zapotec languages
linked to: Zapotec
region Isthmus of Tehuantepec
spokenBy Huave people
spokenIn Mexico
Oaxaca
linked to: Oaxaca state

San Dionisio del Mar
coastal town of San Dionisio del Mar
state Oaxaca
subdivisionOf Huave language
usedFor local community communication
oral literature
traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Mexican Penutian languages hasMember Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of San Mateo del Mar hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of Santa María del Mar hasDialectalRelationWith Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of San Dionisio del Mar hasAlternativeName Huave de San Dionisio del Mar
linked to: Huave of San Dionisio del Mar
Huave of San Francisco del Mar hasDialect Huave of San Dionisio del Mar