User:Softstarkid/Akatek language
 | This is the sandbox page where you will draft your initial Wikipedia contribution.
If you're starting a new article, you can develop it here until it's ready to go live. If you're working on improvements to an existing article, copy only one section at a time of the article to this sandbox to work on, and be sure to use an edit summary linking to the article you copied from. Do not copy over the entire article. You can find additional instructions here. Remember to save your work regularly using the "Publish page" button. (It just means 'save'; it will still be in the sandbox.) You can add bold formatting to your additions to differentiate them from existing content. |
Article Draft
[edit]Lead
[edit]History
[edit]Akateko is closely related to Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek. The three languages together form the Qʼanjobʼal-Jakaltek sub-branch, which together with the Mochoʼ language form the Qʼanjobʼalan sub-branch, which again, together with the Chujean languages, Chuj and Tojolabʼal, form the branch Qʼanjobalan–Chujean. It is believed that Qʼanjobʼal–Jakaltek split into Akateko, Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek some 500 to 1,500 years ago.[citation needed]
Classifiers
[edit]Akatek has 14 nominal classifiers
Like other Mayan languages, such as Q'anjob'al and Chuj, all nouns in Akatek are organized into three categories, humans, animals and inanimate objects. All are marked with classifier and there is no generic classifier. [1][2]
Phonology
[edit]Akatek unique for having phonemic long vowels, recent innovation, sound change from Q'anjob'al.[3]
Semantics
[edit]Verbs
In Mayan languages such as Akatek, the standard verb roots are classified in multiple categories at once.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Zavala, Roberto (2000). Systems of Nominal Classification. Cambridge University Press. p. 118.
- ^ Law, Danny (2020). Pattern borrowing, linguistic similarity, and new categories: Numeral Classifiers in Mayan. Springer Nature. pp. 354–355.
- ^ Bennett, Ryan (2016). "Mayan phonology: Mayan phonology". Language and Linguistics Compass. 10 (10): 469–514. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12148.
- ^ Henderson, Robert (2016). "Mayan Semantics". Language and Linguistics Compass. 10 (10): 551–588.