Sipakapa language explained

Sipakapense
Nativename:	Sipacapeño Ri Qyolb’al
States:	Sipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala
Region:	Sipacapa
Ethnicity:	17,400 Sipakapense (2019 census)
Date:	2019 census
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Mayan
Fam2:	Quichean–Mamean
Fam3:	Greater Quichean
Iso3:	qum
Glotto:	sipa1247
Glottorefname:	Sipacapense
Agency:	Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala

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]}

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
			plain	sibilant
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
	ejective		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
	implosive	pronounced as /ink/
Fricative				pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/			pronounced as /ink/
Nasal		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Trill			pronounced as /ink/
Approximant			pronounced as /ink/			pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/
Mid	pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/
Open		pronounced as /ink/ pronounced as /ink/

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Notes and References

1. Web site: XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico . 2008-05-27 . Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas . 2002 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080612073239/http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html . 2008-06-12 .
2. Web site: Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense . . 2021-02-01.
3. Book: Barrett, Edward R. . A Grammar of Sipakapense Maya . Austin, TX: Ann Arbor: UMI . 1999.