Ixil language

E602968
Mayan language indigenous language of the Americas language

The Ixil language is a Mayan language spoken primarily in the Guatemalan highlands by the Ixil people, known for its rich oral tradition and ongoing revitalization efforts.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Ethnologue: Ixil 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mayan language ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ
language ⓘ
country Guatemala ⓘ
culturalAssociation Ixil traditional dress and ceremonies ⓘ
oral histories of the Guatemalan civil war ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Ixil Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ
family Mayan language family ⓘ
geographicDistribution western Guatemala ⓘ
glottocode ixil1238 ⓘ
hasDialects Chajul Ixil NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cotzal Ixil NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nebaj Ixil ⓘ
hasFeature complex verbal morphology ⓘ
contrastive tone in some analyses ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ
head-marking morphology ⓘ
rich aspectual system ⓘ
verb-initial basic word order ⓘ
hasNeighborLanguage Kʼicheʼ language ⓘ
Poqomchiʼ language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Uspantek language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRegulatoryBody Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasResourceType bilingual dictionaries ⓘ
grammatical descriptions ⓘ
translated religious texts ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunity rural highland communities ⓘ
iso639-3Code ixl ⓘ
languageFamily Mayan ⓘ
partOf Mesoamerican linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizedBy Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ
region Chajul NERFINISHED ⓘ
Cotzal NERFINISHED ⓘ
El Quiché Department NERFINISHED ⓘ
Nebaj NERFINISHED ⓘ
revitalizationStatus ongoing revitalization efforts ⓘ
spokenBy Ixil people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Guatemala NERFINISHED ⓘ
Guatemalan highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamily Greater Mamean NERFINISHED ⓘ
subgroup Ixilan NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor oral tradition ⓘ
ritual speech ⓘ
traditional storytelling ⓘ
usedIn community radio programming ⓘ
local education initiatives ⓘ
writingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (5)

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

Mam language → closelyRelatedTo → Ixil language ⓘ
Ixil → hasEthnologueEntry → Ixil language ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ethnologue: Ixil
Quichean–Mamean → includesLanguage → Ixil language ⓘ
Quiché Department → majorIndigenousLanguage → Ixil language ⓘ
Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala → promotes → Ixil language ⓘ