Akateko

 

            Is a Mayan language spoken by the Akateko people primarily in the Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala in and around the municipalities of Concepción Huista, Nentón, San Miguel Acatán, San Rafael La Independencia and San Sebastián Coatán. A number of speakers also live in Chiapas, Mexico. It is a living language with 58,600 speakers in 1998, of which 48,500 lived in Guatemala and the remaining in Mexico.

 

        Akateko is closely related to the two Mayan languages, Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek. The three languages together form the Qʼanjobʼal-Jakaltek sub-branch, which together with the Mochoʼ language form the Qʼanjobʼalan sub-branch, which again, together with the Chujean languages, Chuj and Tojolabʼal, form the branch Qʼanjobalan–Chujean. It is believed that Qʼanjobʼal–Jakaltek split into Akateko, Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek some 500 to 1,500 years ago.

 

        Akateko was regarded as a dialect of the Qʼanjobʼal language until the 1970s, when linguists realized that it has a distinct grammar from that of Qʼanjobʼal. That it has been thought a dialect of Qʼanjobʼal is reflected in the many names Akateko has had through time. One of its primary names before it was named Akateko was Ti Western Qʼanjobʼal, but it has also been called Conob and various names including Qʼanjobʼal and the municipality where it is spoken.

 

        An interesting aspect of Akateko grammar, which is also present in most other Qʼanjobalan languages, is the use of directional morphemes, which appear as enclitics. These morphemes make it possible for the speaker to talk about movement and direction in space without pointing or using other gestures. Consider the stative verb to be, which can appear as existing inwards, existing towards there, away from the speaker and listener and existing from the inside out, using different enclitics. 

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 Jacalteco

 

            Su nombre es la forma castellanizada de jakalteca, que en náhuatl significa personas de los jacales. La Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala llama a esta lengua popti´.

            Esta lengua es hablada por un grupo maya que habita en los Altos occidentales de Guatemala, Jacaltenango en donde tiene todo su esplendor y en una zona vecina del estado mexicano de Chiapas en una minoría, la mayor parte de la población se encuentra en el municipio de Jacaltenango de donde es el origen de este idioma y es conocido como abxubal, recibe también el nombre de poptí o jakalteko , y en México se le conoce también como ab'xub'al. En Jacaltenango se encuentra las oficinas de la Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala.

La comunidad lingüística del idioma jacalteco alcanza los cuarenta mil hablantes, concentrados sobre todo en el municipio Jacaltenango de departamento de Huehuetenango, al norocccidente de Guatemala. El jacalteco tiene una sintaxis del tipo Verbo Sujeto Objeto. Como otras lenguas amerindias, el jacalteco posee una morfología aglutinante sumamente compleja, y se trata de una lengua ergativa.

El jacalteco oriental comprende los siguientes fonemas: a, b, c, c', ch, ch', e, i, j, k, k', l, m, n, n̈/ŋ, o, p, r, s, t, t', tx, tx', tz, tz', u, w, x, ẍ, y, '

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 Chʼortiʼ

 

            Is a Mayan language, spoken by the indigenous Maya people.

            Chʼortiʼ is a direct descendant of the Classic Maya language in which many of the pre-Columbian inscriptions using the Maya script were written. Chʼortiʼ is the modern version of the ancient Mayan language Chʼolan (which was actively used and most popular between the years of A.D 250 and 850).

            The Chʼortiʼ language is an important factor to comprehend the contents of Maya glyphic writings, some of which are not yet fully understood. Over several years, many linguists and anthropologists expected to realize the Chʼortiʼ culture and language by studying its words and expressions. Chʼortiʼ is spoken mainly in and around Jocotán and Camotán, Chiquimula department, Guatemala, as well as adjacent areas of parts of western Honduras near the Copán Ruins. Because the Classic Mayan language was ancestral to the modern Chʼorti, Chʼorti can be used to decipher the ancient language. Researchers realized that the ancient language was based more on phonetics than previously thought.

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 Achi

 

            Language: Achi is a Maya language spoken by about 120,000 people in Guatemala. Unlike many Maya languages Achi is not endangered, with an increasing number of speakers. Most Achi children speak their traditional language at home, though they learn Spanish at school. Achi is an agglutinative language with fairly free word order-- although Achi sentences are usually verb-initial like most other Mayan languages, SVO (subject–verb–object) word order is also commonly used. The Achi language is closely related to Quiché Maya and many linguists consider it a dialect of Quiche, although these two groups have distinct ethnic and historical identities.

            There are two Achi dialects. Rabinal Achi is spoken in the Rabinal area, and Cubulco Achi is spoken in the Cubulco area west of Rabinal.

One of the masterpieces of precolumbian literature is the Rabinal Achi, a theatrical play written in the Achi language.

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