The Jacaltec (or Jakalteko or Popti') are a group of Maya Indians living in the Western Guatemala highlands and adjoining part of Chiapas and southern Mexico.
Jacaltec is also the name of their branch of the Mayan languages which is spoken by approximately 40,000 people, mainly in the HuehuetenangoDepartment of Guatemala.
In Jacaltec the n-diaeresis represents a velar nasal consonant (ŋ).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacaltec (296 words)
Jacaltec: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Jacaltec (or Jakalteko or Popti') are a group of Maya Indians living in the Western Guatemala (A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; noted for low per capita income and illiteracy; politically unstable)
Owing to Jacaltec's dissimilarity with Indo-European language (The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Jacaltec has become a favorite of students of linguistic typology[follow this hyperlink for a summary of this topic].
His research centered on the semantics, grammar and the interrelations between the two of a form class of words for shape and position in the Jacaltec language.
5 - Jacaltec verbs and verbal paradigms 2 pp.
A) Jacaltec Linguistics – Phonetics – Phonology (cont.)
After hours of discussion on the merits of inclusiveness, cultural identity, and religious significance, the Jacaltec Association eventually came to the decision to remove religious references from publicity for the festival and to restrict religious activities to off-campus locations during the morning of the fiesta.
After much discussion among the members of the Jacaltec Association, it was decided that the invitation should be withdrawn because people back in Jacaltenango who viewed videos of the event would be upset by the intrusion.
Despite the previous year’s decision that the event was to be open to various groups, the Jacaltec leaders were more concerned with their own particular connections with home than with building a sense of community with other groups.
Data Sources Listed by Author(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Kanjobal data is from Santa Eulalia and Barillas, areas which were classified as "Jacaltec" at the time of Andrade's investigations.
To cope with the "richness" of his recordings (in both this and his 1931 work), I have had to make do with standard symbols in the transcriptions, adding in the comment fields such "diacritical" information as: " said to be palatalized", or "
has delayed release".
For example, the Jacaltec word for "beans" is given as /hupal/ in 1927, as /hopal/ and /upal/ in 1931.
"This is a construction that only exists in the minor Jacaltec language of Guatemala, though it is questionable whether the writers of Spinal Tap knew this at the time."
Is that inferring that only the Jacaltec language uses umlauts?
Support - The umlaut is purely heavy metal decoration here, and cannot by any stretch be considered part of the name, since n-umlaut has no known pronunciation (due respect to the Jacaltec people).
Regardless of the fact that traditionally, centuries before the Mayapan calendar's inauguration, Ahau was the Sacred Day of Venus (the senior day-sign of the sequence of five), now it would be Kan. A 1 Kan 1 Pop Sacred Day of Venus would have potent mythological significance.
The people that become the Ixil and Jacaltec are arriving in the Cuchumatanes Mountains of Guatemala from the northeast.
In light of the Ixil and Jacaltec Calendar Round beginnings observed just prior to the conquest (which are also possible vestigal Venus Round beginnings), the Highland Maya may have implemeted Sacred Days of Venus other than 1 Ahau, namely, 1 Manik (Ixil) and 1 Lamat (Jacaltec).
Such languages as Chol, Tzeltal, Jacaltec, Kekchi, Pocoman, Cakchiquel, Mam, Quiche, and Kanjobal are all Mayan.
For specific Mayan languages, choose Chontal, Huastec, Jacaltec, Mam, Quiche, or Yucatec.
updated 7-5-2002 Jacaltec (Macro-Penutian), also called Jacalteco and Jacatec, belongs to the Kanjobalan sub-branch of the Greater Kanjobalan sub-branch of the Western Mayan sub- branch of the Main Mayan sub-branch of the Mayan branch of the Macro-Penutian family of languages.
I am trying to find out if there is any connection between the ordering of the elements in these compounds and the ordering of the elements in a VP.
I already have information on how these compounds are formed and used in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Igbo, and Jacaltec, but have been unable, despite hours in the library, to find information on other languages.
On the surface this seems like a simple terminological question but it goes much deeper than that.
Amazon.ca: Blanca Flor: Una Princessa Maya, Spanish-Language Edition: Books(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In South America, criollos told a version closer to the original tale, in which a young woman – Blanca Flor – is instrumental in bringing her suitor through trials set by her possessive and jealous father.
Victor Montejo, a JacaltecMaya, was told yet a different version by his grandmother.
In this rendition of the story, the father, W’itz Ak’al, is none other than the Lord of the Woods, a cacique or king who commands both the natural world and the city.
At first glance, sentence patterns in which vowel and consonant combinations occur, infrequent consonant clusters in Jacaltec give the impression of easy adaptation to the syllabic method.
However, on obtaining the necessary data to produce a primer series, other factors appeared which limited the syllable method.
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999.
Jenkins Responses(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From ethnographic and ethnohistoric information collected and summarized by M. Edmonson ("The Book of the Year", Univ of Utah Press, 1988), I'd have to list more than a hundred distinct groups that followed (or still follow) this count placement.
The ones I'm more familiar with are: Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Quiche, Mam, Ixil, Jacaltec, Kanhobal, Tzutujil.
The present day groups who have probably lost the true count: Chorti (eastern Guatemala), Tzeltal & Tzotzil (Highland Chiapas), Huastec.
Ten leaders got together to scan the entire Jacaltec New Testament to locate any possible type setting errors for correction before sending it off to the printer at the Bible Society.
The revised Jacaltec New Testament has gone to the printers, and Genesis in that language is ready in a short run for trial purposes.
The Guatemala Bible Society distributed the dramatized-recording of the Eastern Jacaltec language New Testament to 32 churches in November.
LINGUIST List 4.267: Jacaltec, generation and LFG, frequency differences(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I am posting this for someone who is not on this list.
He would like to get into contact with anyone who has done research on the syntax of the Mayan language, Jacaltec.
Also, does anyone know where I might find a fairly large, detailed grammar of LFG for English (not necessarily implemented in any computer laguage) to inspect as a model for such an enterprise?
Leza Abstract(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This paper will further pursue the role of imagery in the development of linguistic relationships through an analysis of some aspects of JacaltecMaya classification with a focus on verbs of perception.
This study assumes a discursive process in the development of significant linguistic parallels.
This paper will consider how the discursive production of meaning by reference to salient imagery relates to the discursive production of legitimacy within speaking communities.
Along the way, the claim that the n-diaeresis in Spinal Tap, which I do not attempt to reproduce here, is not a character in any known alphabet has been replaced by the claim that it occurs only in Jacaltec (which Udell mispronounces); in the most recent version, "some orthographies of Malagasy" are added.
Scholars of writing systems might want to check that out.
> Subject: dependency grammar and Jacaltec > > Jacaltec is a Native American language spoken in parts of Mexico and > Guatemala.
It is about 20 pages long and includes a > thumbnail sketch of UDG.
Like many Native American languages, Jacaltec > has a a lot of complex agglutinativemorphology, so this paper has > something to say about the relationship between morphology and syntax.
