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Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a Mayan language very closely related to Kʼicheʼ (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 6,500 people in Sacapulas, El Quiché department and in Guatemala City.

Phonology

Consonants

• Plain voiceless stops are aspirated in syllable-final position.
• /ɓ/ is heard as an ejective or a voiceless implosive when before consonants, or in syllable-final or word-final positions.
• /qʼ/ may also be heard as an implosive in free variation.

Vowels

References

1. ^ Sakapultek at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) [REDACTED]
2. Congreso de la República de Guatemala. "Decreto Número 19-2003. Ley de Idiomas Nacionales". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
3. DuBois, John William (1981). The Sacapultec language. University of California at Berkeley.
4. Mó Isém, Romelia (2006). Gramática descriptiva Sakapulteka. Ciudad de Guatemala: OKMA Proyecto de documentación: idioma Sakapulteko.

External links

• The John William Dubois Collection Of Sacapultec Sound Recordings at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
• Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

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