Popti’

E602958

Popti’ is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek people in the highlands of Guatemala and parts of Mexico.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Popti’ canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
alternateName Jakaltek NERFINISHED
Jakalteko NERFINISHED
belongsTo Mayan language family
country Guatemala
Mexico
ethnicGroup Jakaltek people NERFINISHED
glottocode jaka1245
hasEndonym Popti’ NERFINISHED
hasExonym Jakaltek NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature aspect-based verbal system
ergative-absolutive alignment
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
tone absent
hasSpeakersIn Chiapas NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code jac
languageFamily Mayan language family
languageFamilyBranch Western Mayan languages NERFINISHED
languageFamilyMacro Mesoamerican languages
languageStatus minority language
linguisticArea Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED
morphologyType head-marking language
primaryRegion Guatemalan highlands NERFINISHED
region Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED
relatedTo Akatek NERFINISHED
Chuj NERFINISHED
Q’anjob’al NERFINISHED
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Guatemala NERFINISHED
Mexico NERFINISHED
subfamily Q’anjob’alan branch
typology agglutinative language
usedBy indigenous communities in Guatemala
usedIn community radio
local education programs
traditional oral literature
wordOrder VOS
VSO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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