Sabanilla Chʼol

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Sabanilla Chʼol is a regional variety of the Chʼol Mayan language spoken by indigenous communities in parts of southern Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sabanilla Chol 1
Sabanilla Chʼol canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language variety
language variety
belongsTo Mesoamerican linguistic area
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Chʼol people
hasAlternativeNameType regional variety of Chʼol
hasAncestor Proto-Chʼolan
linked to: Chʼolan languages

Proto-Mayan
hasPhonologicalSystemType consonant–vowel (CV) dominant syllable structure
isDialectOf Chʼol
ISO639-3CodeOfMacroLanguage ctu
isPartOf Chʼol dialect continuum
linked to: Chʼolan languages
languageBranch Western Chʼolan
linked to: Chʼolan languages
languageFamily Mayan languages
languageStatus indigenous language of Mexico
minority language
region southern Mexico
scriptDirection left-to-right
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith other varieties of Chʼol
spokenBy indigenous communities
spokenIn Chiapas
subdivisionOf Chʼol language
linked to: Chol language
subfamily Chʼolan languages
typologicalFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking morphology
verb-initial basic word order
usedBy Chʼol-speaking communities in Sabanilla region
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.

Chʼol hasDialect Sabanilla Chʼol
Chol language hasDialect Sabanilla Chol
linked to: Sabanilla Chʼol