Tetelcingo Nahuatl

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl is a regional variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in and around Tetelcingo in the Mexican state of Morelos.

All labels observed (2)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nahuatl language variety
Uto-Aztecan language variety
indigenous language variety of Mexico
country Mexico
documentedBy Lyle Campbell
other field linguists in the 20th century
endangeredStatus vulnerable
glottocode tete1251
glottologName Tetelcingo Nahuatl
hasAlignment nominative–accusative alignment
hasAlternativeName Morelos Nahuatl (Tetelcingo variety)
linked to: Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Tetelcingo Aztec
linked to: Tetelcingo
hasAncestor Classical Nahuatl
Proto-Nahuan language
linked to: Proto-Nahuan

Proto-Uto-Aztecan language
linked to: Proto-Uto-Aztecan
hasGrammaticalFeature derivational verbal morphology
possessive prefixes on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative structure
polysynthetic morphology
verb incorporation of multiple affixes
hasNumberOfSpeakers small community-level speaker population
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottal stop phoneme
tonal or pitch-based prominence (described in some analyses)
hasSyntacticFeature basic word order SVO with flexibility
isDistinctFrom Central Nahuatl of Mexico City
linked to: Central Nahuatl

Guerrero Nahuatl
Huasteca Nahuatl
ISO639-3Code nhg
languageBranch Aztecan languages
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
languageGroup Nahuan languages
languagePolicyStatus recognized as part of the national linguistic heritage of Mexico
languageStatus threatened
lexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish language
linked to: Spanish
region Central Mexico
State of Morelos
Tetelcingo
spokenIn Tetelcingo, Morelos, Mexico
subclassOf Eastern Nahuatl
Nahuatl
usedByEthnicGroup Nahua people
linked to: Nahua
usedInDomain everyday communication in Tetelcingo community
local religious practices
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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

Modern Nahuatl hasDialect Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Aztecan languages includesLanguage Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Tetelcingo Nahuatl glottologName Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Tetelcingo Nahuatl hasAlternativeName Morelos Nahuatl (Tetelcingo variety)
linked to: Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Nahuatl language continuum hasPart Tetelcingo Nahuatl