Tzeltal language
E887249
Tzeltal language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzeltal Maya people in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tzeltal | 24 |
| Tzeltal language canonical | 7 |
| Northern Tzeltal | 1 |
| Tenejapa Tzeltal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10799008 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tzeltal language Context triple: [Tzeltal Maya, usesLanguage, Tzeltal language]
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Lacandon Maya language
The Lacandon Maya language is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of southeastern Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.
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C.
Ixcatec language
The Ixcatec language is a highly endangered indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by a small community in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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D.
Tzotzil
Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzotzil people in the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
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E.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tzeltal language Target entity description: Tzeltal language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzeltal Maya people in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.
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A.
Tzeltal Maya
The Tzeltal Maya are an indigenous Maya people of the Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico, known for their distinct Mayan language, traditional agriculture, and rich textile and ritual practices.
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B.
Lacandon Maya language
The Lacandon Maya language is an indigenous Mayan language spoken by the Lacandon people of southeastern Mexico, known for preserving many archaic features of the Mayan language family.
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C.
Ixcatec language
The Ixcatec language is a highly endangered indigenous Oto-Manguean language spoken by a small community in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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D.
Tzotzil
Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzotzil people in the highlands of Chiapas in southern Mexico.
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E.
Huastec language
The Huastec language is a Mayan language spoken by the Huastec people primarily in the northeastern region of Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| alignmentType | ergative–absolutive ⓘ |
| belongsToPeople |
Tzeltal Maya people
ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltal people
|
| closelyRelatedTo |
Chʼol language
ⓘ
linked to:
Chol language
Chʼortiʼ language ⓘ Tzotzil language ⓘ
linked to:
Tzotzil
|
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| family |
Mayan language family
ⓘ
linked to:
Mayan languages
|
| geographicDistribution |
central Chiapas
ⓘ
eastern Chiapas ⓘ highlands of Chiapas ⓘ
linked to:
Chiapas Highlands
|
| glottocode | tzel1254 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Batsʼil Kʼop
ⓘ
linked to:
Batsʼi kʼop
Tseltal ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Bachajón Tzeltal
ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltalan
Northern Tzeltal ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltal language
Oxchuc Tzeltal ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltal Maya
Southern Tzeltal ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltalan
Tenejapa Tzeltal ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltal language
|
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
aspect-marking on verbs
ⓘ
person-marking prefixes and suffixes ⓘ positional verbs ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive glottalized consonants
ⓘ
tone absent ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature | many speakers are bilingual in Spanish ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | tzh ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Tzeltalan languages ⓘ |
| languageFamilyBranch | Western Mayan ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
recognized indigenous language of Mexico
ⓘ
vigorous ⓘ |
| macrofamily | Mayan languages ⓘ |
| morphologicalType | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| primaryRegion | Chiapas ⓘ |
| primarySpeakers |
Tzeltal Maya people
ⓘ
linked to:
Tzeltal people
|
| regulatedBy | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas ⓘ |
| spokenBy | hundreds of thousands of speakers ⓘ |
| subfamily |
Chʼolan–Tzeltalan subgroup
ⓘ
Tzeltalan branch ⓘ |
| usedFor | daily communication in Tzeltal communities ⓘ |
| usedIn |
community radio in Chiapas
ⓘ
local education in Chiapas ⓘ religious practice among Tzeltal Maya ⓘ traditional oral literature ⓘ |
| wordOrder |
VOS
ⓘ
VSO ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tzeltal language Description of subject: Tzeltal language is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Tzeltal Maya people in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.
Referenced by (33)
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