Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

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

Notation

  • usp

In other languages

URI

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

Download this concept: