Ixil language
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| Ixil | ||
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| Ixil | ||
| Spoken in | Guatemala | |
| Region | Quiché (department) | |
| Total speakers | approx. 70,000 [1] | |
| Language family | Mayan
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | myn | |
| ISO 639-3 | ixl – Ixil | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ixil is a Mayan language. It is the primary language of the Ixil Triangle -- the three villages of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebaj, and San Gaspar Chajul -- in the highlands of Guatemala. Possibly it is three different languages.
[edit] Grammar
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Ixil pronominals are discerned between ergative ones and absolutive ones.[2]. A notable feature of the language's grammar is its ambiguity in discerning reflexive from reciprocal pronouns.[3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), (2005) Ethnologue report on Nebaj Ixil, Chajul Ixil & San Juan Cotzal Ixil, accessed March 07, 2008.
- ^ "Toward a Dialectology of Ixil Maya: Variation across Communities and Individuals" Thomas E. Lengyel
- ^ "Reflexive and Reciprocal Elements in Ixil", ERIC: ED353802, Glenn Ayres, 1990.
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