Uspanteko

 

            Uspanteko or Uspanteco is a Mayan language. Is spoken by about 1500 people in Guatemala. It is a tone language and has subject–verb–object word order, and is closely related to Kʼicheʼ. It is spoken in the Uspantán and Playa Grande Ixcán municipalities, 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.

            Uspantek has two phonemic tones: high and falling. In writing, the high tone is represented by an acute accent mark on the vowel (ráqan 'my foot'), and the falling tone is represented by an acute accent mark on the first vowel followed by an unmarked vowel.

 

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