Tlapanec people

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The Tlapanec people are an Indigenous group of Mexico, primarily living in the state of Guerrero, known for their distinct Mesoamerican cultural traditions and languages.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tlapanec people canonical 8

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican people
indigenous people
areIndigenousTo Mexico
Sierra Madre del Sur
areMinorityIn Guerrero
arePartOf indigenous peoples of the Americas
continent North America
country Mexico
culturalRegion Mesoamerica
ethnonym Meꞌphaa
linked to: Meʼphaa

Tlapaneco
linked to: Tlapanec
governedBy traditional community assemblies
haveAutonym Meꞌphaa
linked to: Meʼphaa
haveCulturalPractice communal land tenure
ritual agriculture ceremonies
historicalLanguage Tlapanec
language Tlapanec language
languageFamily Oto-Manguean languages
linguisticStatus endangered languages
liveInMunicipality Acatepec
linked to: Acatepec Meʼphaa

Ayutla de los Libres
Malinaltepec
Metlatónoc
Tlacoapa
Zapotitlán Tablas
liveInRegion Costa Chica, Guerrero
La Montaña, Guerrero
mainCrops beans
maize
squash
mainEconomicActivity subsistence agriculture
primaryRegion Guerrero
recognizedAs indigenous people of Mexico
relatedEthnicGroup Amuzgo people
Mixtec people
Nahua people
linked to: Nahua
religion Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
traditionalCraft basketry
pottery
weaving
traditionalHousing adobe houses
wattle and daub houses
traditionalMusic string ensembles
traditionalReligion Mesoamerican religion
animism
useWritingSystem Latin script

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Referenced by (8)

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

Tlapanecan languages areSpokenBy Tlapanec people
Amuzgo people neighboringPeoples Tlapanec people
Guerrero region indigenousGroup Tlapanec people
Meʼphaa languages spokenBy Tlapanec people
Meʼphaa ethnicGroup Tlapanec people
Acatepec Tlapanec ethnicGroup Tlapanec people
Azoyú Tlapanec ethnicGroup Tlapanec people
Meʼphaa people exonym Tlapanec people