Qʼanjobʼal

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Qʼanjobʼal is an indigenous Mayan language spoken primarily by the Qʼanjobʼal people in the highlands of northwestern Guatemala.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Qʼanjobʼal canonical 8
Kanjobal de Guatemala 1
Qʼanjobʼal Maya 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
indigenous language
natural language
belongsToEthnolinguisticGroup Maya peoples
closelyRelatedTo Akateko
Chuj
Jakaltek
country Guatemala
endangeredStatus vulnerable
family Mayan language family
hasAlternativeName Kanjobal
Qʼanjobʼal
surface form: Kanjobal de Guatemala

Qanjobal
hasBasicWordOrder VOS
VSO
hasDomain daily communication in Qʼanjobʼal communities
hasGlottocode kanj1242
hasISO639-3Code kjb
hasLanguagePolicyContext intercultural bilingual education in Guatemala
hasLinguisticTypology ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking language
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone absent
glottalized consonants
hasRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education initiatives in Guatemala
hasScriptRegulator Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
hasStandardizationBody Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
isOfficialLanguageOf no sovereign state
languageFamily Mayan
recognizedIn Mayan languages
surface form: Guatemala (as a Mayan language)
region Huehuetenango Department
spokenBy Qʼanjobʼal people
spokenIn Guatemala
Guatemala Highlands
surface form: Guatemalan Highlands

northwestern Guatemala
subfamily Qʼanjobʼalan branch
subgroup Western Qʼanjobʼalan languages
usedIn community radio broadcasting
local education programs
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mayan languages includesLanguage Qʼanjobʼal
Guatemala Highlands hasEthnicGroup Qʼanjobʼal
this entity surface form: Qʼanjobʼal Maya
Quetzaltenango localLanguage Qʼanjobʼal
Mam hasNeighboringLanguage Qʼanjobʼal
Qʼanjobʼal hasAlternativeName Qʼanjobʼal
this entity surface form: Kanjobal de Guatemala
Jakaltek closelyRelatedTo Qʼanjobʼal
this entity surface form: Q’anjob’al
Mochoʼ closelyRelatedTo Qʼanjobʼal
Sipakapense closelyRelatedTo Qʼanjobʼal
Southern Mam hasNeighboringLanguage Qʼanjobʼal
Akateko closelyRelatedTo Qʼanjobʼal
Akateko hasLanguageBranch Qʼanjobʼal
this entity surface form: Qʼanjobʼalan