Social:Sakapultek language
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Short description: Mayan language of Guatemala
| Sakapultek | |
|---|---|
| Sacapulteco | |
| Tujaal Tziij | |
| Native to | Guatemala |
| Region | El Quiché |
| Ethnicity | 12,900 Sakapultek (2019 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 6,500 (2019 census)e25 |
Mayan
| |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Guatemala[2] |
| Regulated by | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | quv |
| Glottolog | saca1238[3] |
File:WIKITONGUES- Pascual speaking Sakapulteko.webm Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a Mayan language very closely related to Kʼicheʼ (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 6,500 people in Sacapulas, El Quiché department and in Guatemala City.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | plain | pal. | |||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | kʲ | q | ʔ | |
| ejective | (pʼ) | tʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | kʼʲ | qʼ | |||
| implosive | ɓ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | x | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||||
- Plain voiceless stops are aspirated [Cʰ] in syllable-final position.
- /ɓ/ is heard as an ejective [pʼ] or a voiceless implosive [ɓ̥] when before consonants, or in syllable-final or word-final positions.[4]
- /qʼ/ may also be heard as an implosive [ʛ̥] in free variation.[5]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namede25 - ↑ Congreso de la República de Guatemala. "Decreto Número 19-2003. Ley de Idiomas Nacionales". http://www.congreso.gob.gt/gt/mostrar_ley.asp?id=448.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sacapulteco". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/saca1238.
- ↑ DuBois, John William (1981). The Sacapultec language. University of California at Berkeley.
- ↑ Mó Isém, Romelia (2006). Gramática descriptiva Sakapulteka. Ciudad de Guatemala: OKMA Proyecto de documentación: idioma Sakapulteko.
External links
- The John William Dubois Collection Of Sacapultec Sound Recordings at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
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