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
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Uspanteko
French
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Portuguese
-
Idioma uspanteco
Spanish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/usp
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