Sipakapa language

Sipakapense
Sipacapeño Ri Qyolb’al
Native to	Sipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala
Region	Sipacapa
Ethnicity	17,400 Sipakapense (2019 census)
Native speakers	4,200 (2019 census)[1]
Language family	Mayan Quichean–Mamean Greater Quichean Sipakapense
Official status
Regulated by	Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qum
Glottolog	sipa1247
ELP	Sipakapa

Sipakapense is a Mayan language, closely related to Kʼicheʼ spoken natively within indigenous Sipakapense communities in Western Guatemala. It is primarily based in the municipality of Sipacapa in the department of San Marcos.^[1][2][3]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
			plain	sibilant
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts	tʃ		k	q	ʔ
	ejective		tʼ	tsʼ	tʃʼ		kʼ	qʼ
	implosive	ɓ
Fricative				s	ʃ			χ
Nasal		m	n
Trill			r
Approximant			l			j	w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Open		a aː

^[4]

References

1. Sipakapense at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico". Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2002. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
3. "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
4. Barrett, Edward R. (1999). A Grammar of Sipakapense Maya. Austin, TX: Ann Arbor: UMI.