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Itza'

Genetic affiliation: Mayan > Yucatecan
Place: Guatemala
Population: 12 in 1986 (Endangered Languages Project)
Endangerment: strongly endangered (Endangered Languages Project)

Glottolog 4.8 edited by Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

units

Beneath the surface:
word order in Mayan
by Lauren Clemens

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10550978

V-initial orders: derivation and reordering; preverbal orders and extraction restrictions; explaining ergativity

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TAM morphology in Mayan
by Igor Vinogradov

DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10237715

variation between Mayan in TAM morphology; accounts for diversity and diachronic hypotheses; contact, grammaticalization, loss

slides

sources

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

grammar

grammars, outlines of grammatical structure, grammatical sketches

Charles A. Hofling. 2000. Itzaj Maya Grammar.. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

lexicon

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

Hofling, Charles Andrew and Tesucún, Félix Fernando. 1997. Itzaj Maya-Spanish-English dictionary Diccionario Maya Itzaj-Espanol-Ingles. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press.

texts

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

Hofling, Charles Andrew. 1991. Itzá Maya Texts: With a Grammatical Overview. By Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.