Jakalteko

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Jakalteko is a Mayan language spoken primarily by the Jakaltek people in the Huehuetenango region of Guatemala.

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Jakalteko canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
natural language
belongsTo Mayan cultural sphere NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Akateko
Chuj NERFINISHED
Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED
continent North America
country Guatemala
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Jakaltek Maya NERFINISHED
family Mayan language family NERFINISHED
glottocode jaka1245
hasAlternativeName Jakalteco NERFINISHED
Jakaltek NERFINISHED
Jakalteko Poptiʼ NERFINISHED
Poptiʼ NERFINISHED
hasDomain everyday communication among Jakaltek people
local governance in Jakaltek communities
ritual and religious practices
hasMorphologicalFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
head-marking morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
glottalized consonants
hasRegulatoryBody Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED
hasSpeakerCommunity Jakaltek diaspora in the United States
hasStandardizationEffort orthography development by Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
ISO639-3Code jac
isPartOf Mayan language area
languageFamily Mayan NERFINISHED
languageStatus indigenous language of the Americas
minority language
macroArea Mesoamerica NERFINISHED
region northwestern Guatemala
spokenBy Jakaltek people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Guatemala NERFINISHED
Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED
subfamily Qʼanjobʼalan branch
typology agglutinative language
usedIn community radio broadcasting
local education programs
traditional oral literature
wordOrder VOS
VSO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Jakaltek alternateName Jakalteko