Typological Atlas of Guatemala

Elizaveta Vostokova • Alexandra Kozhukhar [email protected] • [email protected] NRU HSE Faculty of Humanities School of Linguistics

1. Project description 2. Features of the area The following project aims to demonstrate geographical • Mountainous area on the west; distribution of typological features of the languages of • Spanish – official language of the region; Guatemala. Distribution of each feature is presented on a map • 3 language families are spread in the area; and provided with brief annotation. Maps represent language • ~30 indigenous languages without any official status; distribution across villages and municipalities, based on • Dialectal divergence within each local language; information provided by National Institute of Statistics of • Low social prestige of the local languages. Guatemala (Instituto Nacional de Estadística 2011).

3. Language density 4. Phylogenetic relations 5. List of features Achi Phonology Morphology Syntax Lexical features K'iche’ Kaqchikel • Ejectives • Noun Incorporation • Person Restrictions on Agent Focus • Color Distinction Poqomam • Fortis and Lenis • Locatives formation • Basic Word Order • Terms of Kinship Poqomchi’ • Voiceless Uvular • Obligatory Possessive • Agent Focus • Relational Nouns K'ichean Q'eqchi’ Implosive • Types of Marking • Extraction Restrictions on Agent • Classifiers Sakapultek • Vowel Inventory • Comitatives and Instrumentals Focus • Possesive Relational Sipakapense • Consonant • Articles Formation • Pronominal Copular Constructions Nouns Tz'utujil Inventory • Coding of Nominal Plurality • Switch-Reference Markers • Ordinal Numerals Uspanteko • Voiced and • Clusivity • Zero Copula • Tu vs. Usted Voiceless • Demonstratives • Position of set A affixes • Directionals Mayan Aguacateco • Vowel Length • Coding of Evidentiality • Position of set B affixes • Plurality Obligatoriness Ixil • Mid Central Vowel • Body Parts Incorporation • Zero 3rd Person • Numeral System Mamean Mam • Implosives • Double Marking on Analytic Forms • Obviation Tektiteko • Devoicing of • Completive-Incompletive • Number of Copulas Sonorants Opposition • Inversive Akateko • Voicing of • Types of Agreement • Egrative Split Type Q'anjob'alan Popti’ (Jakaltek) Obsctruents • Special Existencial Marker • Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Q'anjob'al • Vowel Harmony • Double Negation • Agent Focus Marking • • Greater Tseltalan Ch'orti' Prohibitive Formation Agent Focus Oblidatoriness • Types of Possessives • Agent Focus Contexts Yukatekan Itza' • Number of Pronominal Series • Strong and Weak Bans

6. Binary features: Clusivity 7. Non-binary features: Number of vowels

Language Clusivity Language Number of vowels Achi absent Achi 10 Aguacateco absent Aguacateco 10 Akateko present Akateko 10 Chorti absent Chorti 5 Chuj absent Chuj 5 Garifuna absent Garifuna 6 Itza present Itza 11 Ixil absent Ixil 10 K'iche' absent K'iche' 10 Kaqchikel absent Kaqchikel 6-10 Kekchi absent Kekchi 10 Mam present Mam 10 Mopan Maya present Mopan Maya 11 Popti' present Popti' 5 Poqomam absent Poqomam 12 Poqomchi' absent Poqomchi' 10 Q'anjob'al present Q'anjob'al 5 Sacapulteco absent Sacapulteco 10 Sipacapense absent Sipacapense 10 Tektiteko present Tektiteko 10 Tz'utujil absent Tz'utujil 10 Uspanteco absent Uspanteco 10 Xinca present Xinca 6

8. Online atlas 9. Results • Open-source; 1. Typological maps available online — sasha- • Comments are enabled for all maps; kozhukhar.github.io/guatemala_atlas; • Does not require preliminary registration; 2. Dataset of typological features available online. • Maps are customizable (Moroz 2017); • Separate overall bibliography and special list of references for each map. References Coming soon features: Caracterizaciones departamentales. 2011. Instituto Nacional de Estadística. • Map mixing; http://www.ine.gob.gt/ • Separate list of features. Moroz G. 2017. lingtypology: easy mapping for Linguistic Typology.