Jumaytepeque language
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| Jumaytepeque | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guatemala |
| Region | Volcán Jumaytepeque |
| Ethnicity | Xinca people |
Native speakers | (moribund or extinct cited 1997)[1] |
Xincan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (covered by Xinca xin) |
qhq Jumaytepegue | |
| Glottolog | xink1235 |
| ELP | Jumaytepeque Xinka |
Jumaytepeque is an extinct Xincan language of Guatemala that was spoken in the region of Jumaytepeque. It was discovered by Lyle Campbell in the 1970s.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Post- | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | |||||||
| Stop/ | plain | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ | ||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | kʼ | |||
| voiced | b | d | (ɡ) | |||||
| Fricative | ɬ | s | ʂ | h | ||||
| Nasal | plain | m | n | |||||
| glottalized | mʼ | nʼ | ||||||
| Approximant | plain | l | j | w | ||||
| glottalized | lʼ | jʼ | wʼ | |||||
| Trill | plain | r | ||||||
| glottalized | rʼ | |||||||
Vowels
[edit]The Xincan languages all have 6 vowels.[4][5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
References
[edit]- ^ Campbell 1997:166
- ^ Frauke, Sachse; Letteren, Faculteit der. "Reconstructive description of eighteenth-century Xinka grammar". openaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ^ Rogers, Christopher (2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan. University of Utah.
- ^ Frauke, Sachse; Letteren, Faculteit der. "Reconstructive description of eighteenth-century Xinka grammar". openaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
- ^ Rogers, Christopher (2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan. University of Utah.
- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
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