Itzaʼ language

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The Itzaʼ language is a critically endangered Mayan language of the Yucatecan branch, traditionally spoken by the Itza people of Guatemala’s Petén region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Itzaʼ language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
Yucatecan language
critically endangered language
associatedPeople Maya Itzaʼ
associatedWith Lake Petén Itzá
belongsToMacroArea Mesoamerica
branch Yucatecan
closelyRelatedTo Lacandon
Mopan
linked to: Mopan Maya

Yucatec Maya
country Guatemala
culturalDomain Maya ritual practices
ethnobotanical knowledge
oral tradition
documentedBy linguists
endangermentLevel severely moribund
ethnolinguisticGroup Itza people
glottocode itza1241
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasDialect San José Itzaʼ
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect-based verbal system
ergative–absolutive alignment
noun classifiers
possessive classifiers
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasResourceType dictionaries
grammars
text collections
iso6393Code itz
languageFamily Mayan language family
linked to: Mayan languages
languageFamilyBranch Eastern Mayan
numberOfSpeakers very few fluent speakers
primaryCommunity San José, Petén
recognizedBy UNESCO
region Petén region
linked to: Petén Department
regionType lowland Maya area
shiftedTo Spanish
spokenIn Guatemala
Petén Department
status critically endangered
subfamily Yucatecan branch
traditionalSpeakers Itza people
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
usedBy Itza elders
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Itza Maya language Itzaʼ language
Yucatecan branch hasMember Itzaʼ language
Proto-Yucatecan hasDescendant Itzaʼ language
Proto-Mayan hasDescendant Itzaʼ language