Uspanteco
Uspanteco | ||
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Spoken in |
Guatemala | |
speaker | 3000 | |
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ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) myn (all Maya) | ( T ) - |
ISO 639-3 |
Uspanteco (also Uspanteko ) is a Maya language with around 3000 speakers in Guatemala and is one of the smaller Maya languages. It is widespread in the Quiché department .
Uspanteco is an SVO language and, like all Maya languages, an ergative language . The Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala promotes the use of the language. It is written in the Latin script ; less than 1% of first-language speakers and around 16% of second-language speakers can read and write it. In addition, radio programs are broadcast in Uspanteco.
literature
- Wayne Huff and Alice Huff: Uspantec . In: Mary Shaw (Ed.): According to our ancestors: Folk texts from Guatemala and Honduras . Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields, 32. Norman: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1971. pp. 241-246, 501-507. pdf