Kaqchikel language
Kaqchikel is taught in public schools through Guatemala's intercultural bilingual education programs.
Archaeological evidence shows suggestions of Kaqchikel living in Iximcheʼ, which today is located near Tecpán Guatemala.
Instead, their hopes to become stronger were defeated when de Alvarado turned against them and destroyed their capital, which was a part of the Spanish mass extermination plans of the indigenous.
In the 1920s, William Cameron Townsend devised the first alphabet for Kaqchikel while working as a missionary in Guatemala.
Kaqchikel is being taught in public schools such as Guatemala's intercultural bilingual education programs.
Quichean Proper breaks down into four new languages: Kaqchikel, Tzʼutujil, Kʼicheʼ, and Achi.
Greenberg's hypothesis has received significant amounts of negative criticism from many important linguists ever since it was first published in 1987.
This is an example of a commonly cited flaw in the work, which is that Greenberg reaches too far in search of evidence.
In general, the documentation of Kaqchikel in the Amerind etymological dictionary serves to highlight the problems with the hypothesis more than it helps Greenberg's cause.
[citation needed] In the charts below, each of the Kaqchikel phonemes is represented by the character or set of characters that denote it in the standard orthography developed by the Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages (ALMG) and sanctioned by the Guatemalan government.
This roundness ambiguity for the back vowel phonemes is a trait found in many Mayan languages, such as Tzotzil and Mam.
These vowel sounds may be pronounced as either rounded or unrounded depending on the speakers preference, and both are considered native-like[citation needed].
V (vowel only) or VC (vowel-consonant) syllables are not allowed phonetically; a syllable that is conceived of as beginning with a vowel will begin in pronunciation with a glottal stop, although this is not always reflected in standard orthography or in the phonological realization of a word.
Inflective prefixes are quite short, often composed of a single sound and never consisting of more than three; suffixes can be longer than this.
Because of the synthetic-fusional nature of Kaqchikel, it is difficult to discuss the language's morphology and syntax as two separate entities; they are very robustly intertwined.
In English, these words would fall into other categories, namely adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, both transitive and intransitive.
In addition to these officially recognized classes, there are a few other groups of words which do not fall neatly into any of the above categories.
The functions of the ergative agreement include marking not only subjects of transitive verbs, but also possessors of nouns.
There are two main sets of allomorphs for the ergative agreement markers, which are prefixed to the noun or verb they modify.
In some dialects, an epenthetic vowel is inserted between a marker of the incompletive or potential states and the base, in the space which would be occupied by the absolutive prefix.
However, this is not an allophone of the absolutive third person singular marker, but rather a phonetic addition which is not related to the case marking system.
Also, it is important to note that marking of subjects and objects occurs only on the verb, not on any nouns which may fill those roles as constituents.
