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Mesoamerican language area and Oto-Manguean languages

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Difference between Mesoamerican language area and Oto-Manguean languages

Mesoamerican language area vs. Oto-Manguean languages

The Mesoamerican language area is a sprachbund containing many of the languages natively spoken in the cultural area of Mesoamerica. Oto-Manguean languages (also Otomanguean) are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas.

Similarities between Mesoamerican language area and Oto-Manguean languages

Mesoamerican language area and Oto-Manguean languages have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Indo-European languages, Language isolate, Lyle Campbell, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican languages, Mixe–Zoque languages, Sprachbund, Terrence Kaufman, Whistled language.

Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects.

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Language isolate

A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language.

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Lyle Campbell

Lyle Richard Campbell (born October 22, 1942) is an American scholar and linguist known for his studies of indigenous American languages, especially those of Central America, and on historical linguistics in general.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Mesoamerican languages

Mesoamerican languages are the languages indigenous to the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers southern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize and parts of Honduras and El Salvador and Nicaragua.

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Mixe–Zoque languages

The Mixe–Zoque languages are a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.

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Sprachbund

A sprachbund ("federation of languages") – also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, diffusion area or language crossroads – is a group of languages that have common features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact.

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Terrence Kaufman

Terrence Kaufman (born 1937) is an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, lexicography, Mesoamerican historical linguistics and language contact phenomena.

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Whistled language

Whistled languages use whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication.

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Mesoamerican language area and Oto-Manguean languages Comparison

Mesoamerican language area has 34 relations, while Oto-Manguean languages has 138. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 5.23% = 9 / (34 + 138).

References

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