Jakaltek language















































Jakaltek
Jakalteko
Popti’
jab' xub'al
Native to
Guatemala, Mexico
Region
Huehuetenango, Chiapas
Ethnicity Jakaltek
Native speakers
 90,000 (1998)[1]
Language family

Mayan

  • Q’anjobalan–Chujean
    • Q'anjobalan
      • Kanjobal–Jacaltec
        • Jakaltek
Official status
Recognised minority
language in

 Guatemala
Regulated by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3
jac Popti', Jakalteko
Glottolog
popt1235  Popti'[2]

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The Jakaltek /hɑːkəlˈtɛk/[3] (Jacaltec) language , also known as Jakalteko (Jacalteco) or Popti’,[2] is a Mayan language of Guatemala spoken by 90,000 Jakaltek people in the department of Huehuetenango, and some 500 the adjoining part of Chiapas in southern Mexico. The name Popti' for the language is used by the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala and the Guatemalan Congress.




Contents






  • 1 Distribution


  • 2 Phonology


  • 3 Grammar


  • 4 References





Distribution


Municipalities where Jakaltek is spoken include the following (Variación Dialectal en Popti', 2000).



  • Concepción Huista


  • Jacaltenango (including the following villages)

    • San Marcos Huista

    • San Andrés Huista

    • Yinhch'ewex



  • Nentón

  • San Antonio Huista

  • Santa Ana Huista


  • Guadalupe Victoria, Chiapas, Mexico

  • Buxup

  • Tzisb'aj



Phonology


The Eastern Jakaltek language includes the following phonemes. The chart bolds the orthography used by the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala when it differs from the IPA symbol.
Bilabial
Alveolar
Post-
alveolar
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Glottal

Stop
 p/p/
/t/



/k/
/q/
' /ʔ/

Implosive
b' /ɓ/







Ejective stop

/tʼ/


c/kʼ/
 k/qʼ/

Affricate

tz /ts/
ch /tʃ/
tx /tʂ/




Ejective affricate

tz' /tsʼ/
ch' /tʃʼ/
tx' /tʂʼ/




Fricative

/s/
x /ʃ/
xh /ʂ/


j/h/

Nasal
 m/m/
/n/



nh /ŋ/


Approximant
 w/w/
/l/


y /j/



Trill
r/r/





It also has the vowels a /a/, e /e/, i /i/, o /o/, u /u/


n¨{displaystyle mathbf {ddot {n}} }mathbf {ddot {n}}

Eastern Jakaltek is one of the few languages besides the Malagasy language of Madagascar to make use of an n-trema character in its alphabet. In both languages, the n-trema represents a velar nasal consonant [ŋ] (like "ng" in "bang").


Jakaltek-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEVFS, broadcasting from Las Margaritas, Chiapas.



Grammar


The Jakaltek language has a verb–subject–object syntax. Like many Native American languages, Jakaltek has complex agglutinative morphology and uses ergative–absolutive case alignment. It is divided in two dialects, Eastern and Western Jakalteko. "Eastern and Western Jakalteko understand each other's spoken languages, but not written text."[4]


Jakaltek is unusual in that it as four systems of noun and numeral classifiers.[5]


Owing to Jakaltek's dissimilarity with Indo-European languages, the reasonably healthy linguistic population and the relative ease of access to Guatemala, Jakaltek has become a favorite of students of linguistic typology.



References





  1. ^ Jakalteko (alternate name: Popti’) at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)


  2. ^ ab Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Popti'". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh


  4. ^ Gordon, Raymond G, ed. "Jakalteko, Western." Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th ed. Dallas, TX: SIL International, 2005. 254. Print.


  5. ^ Craig, Colette G. (1986). "Jacaltec Noun Classifiers: A Study in Grammaticalization" (PDF). Lingua (70 ed.). North-Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.: 241–284. ISSN 0024-3841.











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