Sipakapa language
Appearance
Sipakapense | |
---|---|
Sipacapeño Ri Qyolb’al | |
Native to | Sipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala |
Region | Sipacapa |
Ethnicity | 17,400 Sipakapense (2019 census) |
Native speakers | 4,200 (2019 census)[1] |
Mayan
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Official status | |
Regulated by | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | qum |
Glottolog | sipa1247 |
ELP | Sipakapa |
Sipakapense is a Mayan language, closely related to Kʼicheʼ spoken natively within indigenous Sipakapense communities in Western Guatemala. It is primarily based in the municipality of Sipacapa in the department of San Marcos.[1][2][3]
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
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plain | sibilant | ||||||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | q | ʔ | |
ejective | tʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||||
implosive | ɓ | ||||||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | χ | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||
Trill | r | ||||||||
Approximant | l | j | w |
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i iː | u uː | |
Mid | e eː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sipakapense at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico". Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
- ^ Barrett, Edward R. (1999). A Grammar of Sipakapense Maya. Austin, TX: Ann Arbor: UMI.