Awakatek

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Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken by the Awakatek people of Guatemala, closely related to Tektitek and part of the broader Mayan language family.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Awakatek canonical 2

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language
language
alignmentType ergative–absolutive
belongsTo Mamean subgroup of Mayan languages
closelyRelatedTo Tektitek NERFINISHED
country Guatemala
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Awakatek people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution northwestern Guatemala
hasAlternativeName Aguacateco NERFINISHED
Awakateco NERFINISHED
Kutanum NERFINISHED
Qatanum NERFINISHED
hasCulturalAssociation Awakatek traditional customs and identity
hasDomain home and community communication
local cultural practices
hasGrammaticalFeature person and number agreement on verbs
rich aspect marking
hasLanguagePolicyContext recognized as a Mayan language by Guatemalan institutions
hasLanguageRegulator Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED
hasNeighborLanguage Ixil NERFINISHED
Mam NERFINISHED
Qʼanjobʼal NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalization
vowel length distinctions
hasScriptType alphabetic
hasSpeakerCommunity Awakatek communities in Guatemala
hasWordOrder VOS (verb–object–subject)
VSO (verb–subject–object)
iso639-3 agu
languageBranch Greater Mamean NERFINISHED
languageFamily Mayan language family NERFINISHED
Proto-Mayan (ancestral) NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative
partOf Mayan languages of Guatemala
region Huehuetenango Department NERFINISHED
spokenBy Awakatek people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Guatemala NERFINISHED
subfamily Mamean branch
usedIn local community education
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

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

Tektitek closelyRelatedTo Awakatek
Ixil closelyRelatedTo Awakatek