Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3
jac
Glottolog
popt1235 Poptiʼ
ELP
Jakalteko
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The Jakaltek/hɑːkəlˈtɛk/[2] (Jacaltec) language, also known as Jakalteko (Jacalteco) or Poptiʼ,[3] is a Mayan language from the Q’anjob’alan-chujean branch spoken by the Jakaltek people in some municipalities in the state of Chiapas, Mexico and the municipality of Jacaltenango in the department of Huehuetenango,Guatemala in the border between both countries. Jakaltek is closely related with the Q'anjob'al and Akatek language and more distantly related with the Tojol-ab'al, Chuj and Mocho'.[4] In Mexico it is also known as Ab'xub'al.
^Jakaltek at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
^Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh
The Jakaltek /hɑːkəlˈtɛk/ (Jacaltec) language, also known as Jakalteko (Jacalteco) or Poptiʼ, is a Mayan language from the Q’anjob’alan-chujean branch...
The name Jakaltek comes from the Nahuatl language meaning “people of the jacal”. The Jakalteklanguage also known as Popti' is a Mayan language from the...
Jakaltek may refer to: the Jakaltek people the Jakalteklanguage This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jakaltek. If an internal...
recognizes Eastern and Western dialects of Jakaltek, as well as Mochoʼ (also called Mototzintlec), a language with less than 200 speakers in the Chiapan...
Mayan languages, Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek. The three languages together form the Qʼanjobʼal-Jakaltek sub-branch, which together with the Mochoʼ language form...
in Holby City Castra of Jac, a fort in the Roman province of Dacia Jakalteklanguage (ISO 639-3: jac) John Abbott College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec...
vary. The Jakaltek chirimía, called su’ in the Jakalteklanguage, is very similar to the chirimías of central and southern Mexico. The Jakaltek chirimía...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
using intonation only. Examples of such languages are Italian, Modern Greek, Portuguese, and the Jakalteklanguage[citation needed]. Similarly in Spanish...
Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-six Mayan languages are spoken, especially...
The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
nagualism in different Mesoamerican cultures such as the Zoques and the Jakaltek, K'iche', Q'eqchi', and Tzeltal Maya. Among the Jacaltek, naguals reinforce...
The Mayan languages are a group of languages spoken by the Maya peoples. The Maya form an enormous group of approximately 7 million people who are descended...
numerous communities in Campeche and Chiapas, Mexico. Neighboring languages include Jakaltek and Qʼanjobʼal to the north, Tektitek and Qato'k to the west,...
Western Maya languages in the state such as Chontal, Ch'ol, Tojolabal, Chuj, Q'anjob'al, Acatec, Jakaltek, and Motozintlec . The Tzeltal language is concentrated...
Q'anjob'al, Chuj, Jakaltek, Tektik, Awakatek, Chalchitek, Akatek and K'iche'. Each of these nine Maya ethnic groups speaks its own language. The department...
producing Ladinos, while a yellow dog fathered the indigenous peoples. A Jakaltek tale from the Guatemalan Highlands relates how the first dog witnessed...
group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
with nearly all the rest speaking indigenous languages (there are 23 officially recognized indigenous languages). According to the 2022 revision of the World...
people of the Guatemala highlands include the Achi, Akatek, Chuj, Ixil, Jakaltek, Kaqchikel, Kʼicheʼ, Mam, Poqomam, Poqomchiʼ, Qʼanjobʼal, Qʼeqchiʼ, Tzʼutujil...
has written grammars of Jakaltek Popti' and Rama and advocates for endangered languages. She contributed to UNESCO's language vitality criteria developed...
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