Social:Sipakapa language
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Short description: Mayan language spoken in western Guatemala
| Sipakapense | |
|---|---|
| Sipacapeño | |
| Ri Qyolb’al | |
| Native to | Sipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala |
| Region | Sipacapa |
| Ethnicity | 17,400 Sipakapense (2019 census) |
Native speakers | 4,200 (2019 census)e25 |
Mayan
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| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qum |
| Glottolog | sipa1247[1] |
Sipakapense is a Mayan language, closely related to Kʼicheʼ spoken natively within indigenous Sipakapense communities in Western Guatemala. It is primarily based in the municipality of Sipacapa in the department of San Marcos.[2][3][4]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | ||||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | q | ʔ | |
| ejective | tʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||||
| implosive | ɓ | ||||||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | χ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sipacapense". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sipa1247.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namede25 - ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico". Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2002. http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html.
- ↑ "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. https://www.almg.org.gt/portfolio-item/c-l-sipakapense.
- ↑ Barrett, Edward R. (1999). A Grammar of Sipakapense Maya. Austin, TX: Ann Arbor: UMI.
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