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Preferred term

uspUspanteco  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • The Uspanteko (Uspanteco, Uspanteko, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to Kiche. It is spoken in the Uspantán and Playa Grande Ixcán municipios, in the Department El Quiché. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (the others being Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil). It distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.

Entry terms

  • Uspantek language

ISO 639-3 code

  • usp

In other languages

  • Uspanteeks

    Dutch

  • Uspanteko

    French

  • Uspantekų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Успантечки јазик

    Macedonian

  • Uspantansk

    Norwegian

  • Língua uspanteca

    Portuguese

  • Успантекский язык

    Russian

  • Idioma uspanteco

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/usp

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