1. Family: Tequistlatecan
  2. Genus: Tequistlatecan

Chontal (Highland)

WALS coordinates: 16° 15′ N, 95° 45′ W

spoken in Mexico

Find examples here.

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chontal
Routledge:
  • Chontal
Other:
  • Highland Chontal,
  • Tequistlatec
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Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
20A Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives Exclusively concatenative Morphology
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21A Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives No case Morphology
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21B Exponence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Inflection monoexponential TAM Morphology
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23A Locus of Marking in the Clause Head marking Morphology
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24A Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases Head marking Morphology
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25A Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology Head-marking Morphology
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25B Zero Marking of A and P Arguments Non-zero marking Morphology
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58A Obligatory Possessive Inflection Exists Nominal Syntax
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58B Number of Possessive Nouns None reported Nominal Syntax
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59A Possessive Classification No possessive classification Nominal Syntax
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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136A M-T Pronouns No M-T pronouns Lexicon
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136B M in First Person Singular No m in first person singular Lexicon
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137A N-M Pronouns N-M pronouns, paradigmatic Lexicon
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137B M in Second Person Singular m in second person singular Lexicon
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