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Mayan languages
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Anatolia, Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia

Chuj

Genetic affiliation: Western Mayan, Kanjobalan-Chujean
Place: Guatemala, Mexico
Population: 38,253 (Endangered Languages Project)
Endangerment: vulnerable (Endangered Languages Project)
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units

Numerals and classifiers
in Mayan languages
by Carol Rose Little

little

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXXX

numeral classifiers in the world's languages, function of classifiers, Ch'ol numeral classifiers, Chuj numeral and noun classifiers, specificity effects

slides

The acquisition of ideophones and split ergativity in Chuj
by Pedro Mateo Pedro

mateo

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.XXX

ideophones, acquisition of ideophones, verb types, productivity, split ergative alignment
 

slides

Microvariation
in Mayan agent focus
by Barbara Stiebels

stiebels

DOI: doi.org/

agent focus, ergativity, ergative extraction constraint, voice, morphology-syntax mismatch, agreement, antipassive
 

slides

sources

The following list contains basic recommendations/sources on the language at issue.


grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Buenrostro, Cristina. 2009. Chuj de San Mateo Ixtatán. Mexico, DF: Centro de Investigación para la Integración Social.
Hopkins, Nicholas Arthur. 1967. The Chuj Language. Chicago: University of Chicago. [Doctoral Dissertation, revised]
Poma S., Maximiliano. 1996. Gramática del idioma ixil. Guatemala: Proyecto Lingüistico Francisco Marroquín.


lexicon

dictionaries, headword search tools, further sources of information about the lexicon

Hopkins, Nicholas A. 2012. Diccionario Ch'ol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla. Florida: Jaguar Tours.
Chuj Talking Dictionary.


texts

corpora of written language, online data bases, text collections, spoken data collections


teaching material

coursebooks, exercises, materials or introductions supporting teaching

Chuj Language (Chuj, Koti') Learn Step by Step
Chuj in Omniglot