Central Pame

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Central Pame is a variety of the Pame language spoken by the Pame people of central Mexico, distinguished by its own phonological and grammatical features.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Central Pame canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Pame language variety
language variety
belongsTo Oto-Pamean branch of Oto-Manguean family
contactLanguage Spanish
country Mexico
ethnicGroup Pame people
hasAlternativeName Central Pame language
linked to: Northern Pame

Pame central
hasDialectContinuumWith Northern Pame
Southern Pame
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Spanish
hasGrammar distinct grammatical system within Pame
hasMorphology complex morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature glottalized consonants
nasal vowels
tonal contrasts
hasPhonology distinct phonological system within Pame
hasTypology head-marking language
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isIndigenousTo Mesoamerica
ISO639-3Code pbs
languageBranch Oto-Pamean languages
linked to: Oto-Pamean
languageFamily Oto-Manguean languages
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
partOf indigenous languages of Mexico
region San Luis Potosí
spokenBy Pame people
spokenIn Mexico
central Mexico
linked to: Central Mexico
subdivisionOf Pame language
linked to: Pame languages
usedIn traditional Pame cultural practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (4)

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

Pame hasDialect Central Pame
Pame hasBranch Central Pame
Pame people speaks Central Pame