Ixil language

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Ixil
Spoken in Guatemala
Region Quiché (department)
Ethnicity Ixil
Native speakers 70,000  (1991–1998)
Language family
Mayan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ixl

Ixil is a Mayan language. It is the primary language of the Ixil Community -- the three villages of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebaj, and San Gaspar Chajul -- in the highlands of Guatemala. Possibly it is three different languages.

[edit] Grammar

Ixil pronominals are discerned between ergative ones and absolutive ones.[1] A notable feature of the language's grammar is its ambiguity in discerning reflexive from reciprocal pronouns.[2]

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