Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel

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Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel is a regional variety of the Kaqchikel Mayan language spoken in and around the town of Santa María de Jesús in Guatemala.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Kaqchikel language variety
Mayan language variety
regional language variety
basicWordOrder VOS
VSO
belongsTo Mesoamerican linguistic area
coexistsWith Spanish language in Santa María de Jesús
continent North America
country Guatemala
dialectOf Kaqchikel language
linked to: Kaqchikel
ethnicGroup Kaqchikel Maya
linked to: Kaqchikel
hasAlternativeName Santa María de Jesús dialect of Kaqchikel
Santa María de Jesús variety of Kaqchikel
hasAncestor Proto-Kaqchikel–Tzʼutujil language
Proto-Mayan language
linked to: Proto-Mayan

Proto-Quichean–Mamean language
hasLanguageType spoken language
vernacular language
hasMorphologicalFeature aspect marking on verbs
complex verbal inflection
person marking on verbs
hasNeighboringVariety Antigua Kaqchikel
San Juan Sacatepéquez Kaqchikel
San Pedro Sacatepéquez Kaqchikel
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive glottalized consonants
phonemic vowel length
hasSyntacticFeature ergative–absolutive alignment
isEndangered true
isPartOf Kaqchikel dialect continuum
linked to: Kaqchikel
languageBranch Kʼicheʼan languages
languageFamily Mayan languages
languageStatus indigenous language of Guatemala
indigenous language of the Americas
minority language
region central highlands of Guatemala
spokenIn Guatemala
Sacatepéquez Department NERFINISHED
Santa María de Jesús
subdivisionOf Kaqchikel language
linked to: Kaqchikel
subfamily Quichean–Mamean languages
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
head-marking language
usedBy local Kaqchikel Maya community of Santa María de Jesús
usedIn everyday communication in Santa María de Jesús
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Kaqchikel hasDialect Antigua Kaqchikel
linked to: Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel hasDialect Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel
Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel hasAlternativeName Santa María de Jesús variety of Kaqchikel
linked to: Santa María de Jesús Kaqchikel