Guazacapán Xinca
| Guazacapán | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guatemala |
| Region | Guazacapán |
| Ethnicity | Xinca people |
Native speakers | 1 semi-speaker (2014)[1] |
Xincan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | (covered by Xinca xin) |
| Glottolog | xinc1246 |
| ELP | Guazacapán Xinka |
Guazacapán Xinca is a moribund or extinct Xincan language that was spoken in the region of Guazacapán in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala.[2][3] It has only a single semi-speaker as of 2014.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| 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
The Xincan languages all have 6 vowels.[4]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | ɨ ɨː | u uː |
| Close-mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
References
- 1 2 Rogers, Chris (July 2014). "Xinkan Verb Categorization: Morphosyntactic Marking on Intransitive Verbs". International Journal of American Linguistics. 80 (3): 371–397. doi:10.1086/676395. ISSN 0020-7071.
- ↑ Campbell 1997:166
- ↑ Rogers, Christopher (December 2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan (PDF). UMI Dissertation Publishing. ISBN 9781244711853.
- 1 2 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.
External links
Xinca Guazacapán resources in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: