Eastern Chatino

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Eastern Chatino is an indigenous Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico spoken by the Chatino people in the eastern part of their traditional territory.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Chatino canonical 2
Eastern Chatino language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Oto-Manguean language
indigenous language
language
closelyRelatedTo other Chatino varieties
continent North America
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Chatino people
familyBranch Chatino
linked to: Chatino languages
geneticClassification Oto-Manguean > Zapotecan > Chatino > Eastern Chatino
hasAlternativeName Chatino del Este
Eastern Chatino language
linked to: Eastern Chatino
hasDialects varieties spoken in multiple eastern Chatino communities
hasMorphologicalType fusional and analytic features
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone system
tone
ISO639-3Code cly
languageEndangermentCause shift to Spanish
languageFamily Oto-Manguean
languageStatus endangered language
moreDistantlyRelatedTo Zapotec languages
linked to: Zapotecan languages
primaryWordOrder verb–subject–object
region eastern part of the Chatino traditional territory
spokenIn Mexico
Oaxaca
southern Mexico
subclassOf Chatino language
linked to: Chatino languages

Oto-Manguean language family
usedBy Chatino communities in eastern Oaxaca
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Chatino people hasLanguage Eastern Chatino
Chatino languages hasLanguageBranch Eastern Chatino
Eastern Chatino hasAlternativeName Eastern Chatino language
linked to: Eastern Chatino