Guazacapán Xinca is a moribund or extinct Xincan language that was spoken in the region of Guazacapán in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala.[2][3] It has only a single semi-speaker as of 2014.[1]

Guazacapán
Native toGuatemala
RegionGuazacapán
EthnicityXinca people
Native speakers
1 semi-speaker (2014)[1]
Xincan
  • Guazacapán
Language codes
ISO 639-3(covered by Xinca xin)
Glottologxinc1246
ELPGuazacapán Xinka

Phonology

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Consonants

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Guazacapán Xinca consonants[4]
Labial Alveolar Post-

alveolar

Retroflex Velar Glottal
plain sibilant
Stop/

Affricate

plain p t t͡ʃ k ʔ
ejective t͡sʼ t͡ʃʼ
voiced (b) (d) (ɡ)
Fricative ɬ s ʂ h
Nasal plain m n
glottalized
Approximant plain l j w
glottalized
Trill plain r
glottalized

Vowels

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The Xincan languages all have 6 vowels.[4]

Front Central Back
Close i iː ɨ ɨː u uː
Close-mid e eː o oː
Open a aː

References

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  1. 1 2 Rogers, Chris (July 2014). "Xinkan Verb Categorization: Morphosyntactic Marking on Intransitive Verbs". International Journal of American Linguistics. 80 (3): 371–397. doi:10.1086/676395. ISSN 0020-7071.
  2. Campbell 1997:166
  3. Rogers, Christopher (December 2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan (PDF). UMI Dissertation Publishing. ISBN 9781244711853.
  4. 1 2 Rogers, Christopher (2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan. University of Utah.
  • Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
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