[3] Ch'ol-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEXPUJ-AM, broadcasting from Xpujil, Campeche.
[6] The vowel ä is a distinctive segment in Chʼol, as in other Chʼolan languages.
[7] Chʼol can have CV, CVC, CVCC, CCVC, CCVCC as possible syllable structures.
[8] Like many other Mayan languages, Chʼol does not allow onsetless syllables, which means words that appear to start with vowel in fact have a glottal stop as the onset.
A secondary stress, indicated by a grave accent, can be heard in the first part of a compound word.
The absence of glyphic material in Guatemala points that the calendar was a creation of the lowland Maya.
[3] Ch'ol has been considered one of the closer languages to several Mayan glyphs inscriptions.
As vocabularies of Ch'ol, Chontal, Chorti, and Tzotzil are far from complete, it is not possible to establish some cognates between these languages and Mayan glyphs.
The former can go with proper names, nominalize verbs, and be prefixed to some terms that refer to animals.
[17] Like almost all other Mayan languages, Ch'ol has two sets of person markers: ergative and absolutive.
[18] Chʼol is a split ergative language: its morphosyntactic alignment varies according to aspect.
[19] Set A markers are generally considered as suffixes; however, Martínez Cruz (2007) and Arcos López (2009) categorized them as proclitics.
Both are used interchangeably, except when it is attached before a singular marker, in which case only the shorter form is allowed.
Verbal predicates can have the following aspects: perfective, imperfective, progressive, inceptive, terminative, and potential.
[23] To form derived transitive verbs, the suffix -V or -Vñ is appended, based on the aspect.