Yucatec

WALS coordinates: 20° N, 89° W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Yucatec
Routledge:
  • Yukateko Proper
Other:
  • Peninsular Maya,
  • Yucateco,
  • Yukatek
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ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives No voicing constrast Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Other Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants Ejectives and implosives Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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13A Tone Simple tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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27A Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication Morphology
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45A Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns No politeness distinction Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Identity Nominal Categories
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55A Numeral Classifiers Obligatory Nominal Categories
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65A Perfective/Imperfective Aspect Grammatical marking Verbal Categories
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66A The Past Tense No past tense Verbal Categories
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67A The Future Tense No inflectional future Verbal Categories
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68A The Perfect No perfect Verbal Categories
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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131A Numeral Bases Pure vigesimal Lexicon
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