Ch’ol language

Ch’ol language
Chol
Ch'ol
Spoken in Mexico
Region North Central Chiapas
Native speakers 135,000 (1992–2000)
Language family
Mayan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ctu

Ch'ol (or Chol) is a member of the western branch of the Mayan language family used by the Ch'ol people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. There are two main dialects:

  • Ch'ol of Tila spoken by 43,870 people of whom 10,000 are monolinguals in the villages of Tila, Vicente Guerrero, Chivalito and Limar in Chiapas.
  • Ch'ol of Tumbalá spoken by 90,000 people of whom 30,000 are monolinguals in the villages of Tumbalá, Sabanilla, Misijá, Limar, Chivalita and Vicente Guerrero.

The Cholan branch of the Mayan languages is considered to be particularly conservative and Ch'ol along with its two closest relatives the Ch'orti' language of Guatemala and Honduras, and the Chontal Maya language of Tabasco are believed to be the modern languages that best reflect their relationship with the Classic Maya language.[1]

Ch'ol-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEXPUJ-AM, broadcasting from Xpujil, Campeche.

Notes

  1. ^ Houston, S., O. Chinchilla, Stuart D. "The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing", U. of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

References

Aulie, H. Wilbur; and Evelyn W. de Aulie (eds.) (1998) [1978] (PDF online reproduction). Diccionario Ch'ol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla. Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", No. 121. Emily F. Scharfe de Stairs (1996 re-editing) (electronic reproduction with March 2005 corrections, 2nd ed.). Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. ISBN 968-31-0291-3. OCLC 42692322. http://www.sil.org/mexico/maya/chol-tumbala/S121a-Diccionario-CTU.htm.  (Spanish)
Coon, Jessica (2010). "Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity" (electronic version). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/001072. Retrieved 2010-07-15.  [includes a grammatical sketch of the language]
Schumann, Otto Gálvez (1973). La lengua Chol de Tila (Chiapas). UNAM. .
Warkentin, Viola; and Ruby Scott (1980). Gramática Ch'ol. Summer Institute of Linguistics. 

External links

  • El ch'ol, website with links to unpublished scholarly work on the language
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