1. Family: Mayan
  2. Genus: Mayan

Chontal Maya

WALS coordinates: 18° 10′ N, 92° 35′ W

spoken in Mexico

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Chontal
Routledge:
  • Chontal
Other:
  • Chontal (Mayan),
  • Chontal (Tabasco),
  • Yocot'an,
  • Tabasco Chontal
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Phonology
The Velar Nasal No velar nasal
Morphology
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology Strongly suffixing
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Definite Articles Definite word distinct from demonstrative
Indefinite Articles No indefinite, but definite article
Position of Case Affixes No case affixes or adpositional clitics
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive suffixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb SVO
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative before and after Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Order of Degree Word and Adjective Degree word-Adjective
Position of Polar Question Particles No question particle
Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase
Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Initial subordinator word
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb
Negative Morphemes Negative particle
Polar Questions Interrogative intonation only
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different