Tataltepec Chatino

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Tataltepec Chatino is an indigenous Chatino language of Oaxaca, Mexico, known for its complex tonal system and use in the community of Tataltepec de Valdés.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tataltepec Chatino canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chatino language
Oto-Manguean language
indigenous language
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Chatino
linked to: Chatino languages
contactLanguage Spanish
countryCode MX
endangeredStatus endangered language
hasAlternativeName Chatino de Tataltepec
Tataltepec de Valdés Chatino
hasCulturalRole marker of local identity in Tataltepec de Valdés
hasDomain home and community domains
hasFeature complex tonal system
complex verb morphology
contrastive vowel length
phonemic tone
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment verb-initial tendencies
hasPhonologicalFeature contour tones
multiple level tones
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift pressure from Spanish
hasType tonal language
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isIndigenousTo Oaxaca
linked to: Oaxaca state
isMinorityLanguageIn Mexico
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith other Chatino varieties (to a significant degree)
isRecognizedAs indigenous language of Mexico
isSpokenByMinority yes
isSubjectOf linguistic fieldwork
tone system research
languageFamilyBranch Chatino branch of Zapotecan
languageOf Tataltepec de Valdés community
partOfLanguageFamily Oto-Manguean language family
region Sierra Madre del Sur
spokenBy Chatino people
spokenInCountry Mexico
spokenInMunicipality Tataltepec de Valdés
spokenInState Oaxaca
subfamilyOf Chatino
linked to: Chatino languages
usedFor everyday communication in Tataltepec de Valdés
local cultural practices
oral tradition

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Referenced by (3)

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

Chatino people hasLanguage Tataltepec Chatino
Chatino languages hasLanguageBranch Tataltepec Chatino
Western Chatino hasDialect Tataltepec Chatino