Awakatek language
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Awakatek language
| Awakatek | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Guatemala |
| Region | Huehuetenango |
| Ethnicity | Awakatek |
| Native speakers | 18,000 (1998) |
| Language family |
Mayan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | agu |
Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken in primarily Huehuetenango, Guatemala in and around Aguacatán.[1] It is a living language with some 18,000 speakers.[2] [3]
Awakatek is closely related to Ixil and the two languages together form the sub-branch Ixilean, which together with the Mamean languages, Mam and Tektitek, form a sub-branch Greater-Mamean, which again, together with the Greater-Quichean languages, ten Mayan languages, including K'iche', form the branch Quichean–Mamean.
The Awakatek people themselves refer to their language as qa'yol, literally meaning our word.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Palatalized | ||||||||||
| Plosive | Normal | p /pʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | k /kʰ/ | ky /kʰʲ/ | q /qʰ/ | ' /ʲʔ/ | ||||
| Ejective | p' /pʼ/ | t' /tʼ~dʼ/ | k' /kʼ/ | ky'/kʼʲ/ | |||||||
| Implosive | b' /ɓ/ | q' /ʛ/ | |||||||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | nh /ŋ/ | ||||||||
| Fricative | w /v~f/ | s /s/ | xh /ʃ/ | x /ʐ/ | j /χ/ | h /ʜ/ | |||||
| Affricate | Normal | p /ɸʰ/ | tz /t͡sʰ/ | ch /t͡ʃʰ/ | tx /ʈ͡ʂʰ/ | ||||||
| Ejective | tz' /t͡sʼ~dzʼ/ | ch' /t͡ʃʼ~dʒʼ/ | tx' /ʈ͡ʂʼ~ɖʐʼ/ | ||||||||
| Flap | r /ɾ/ | ||||||||||
| Approximant | l /l~ɺ/ | y /j/ | w /ʍ/ | ||||||||
References
- ^ Cabral, Ernesto Díaz Couder (2001). Culturas e interculturalidad en Guatemala. http://www.relint.deusto.es/ALFA_EPI/documentos/Culturas%20e%20interculturalidad%20en%20Guatemala%5B1%5D.16-5-02.doc.
- ^ Ethnologue
- ^ "Comunidad Lingüística Awakateka". Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala. 2008. http://www.almg.org.gt/images/stories/pdf/awakateka2008.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
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