Jumaytepeque language

Jumaytepeque
Native to	Guatemala
Region	Volcán Jumaytepeque
Ethnicity	Xinca people
Native speakers	(moribund or extinct cited 1997) [1]
Language family	Xincan Jumaytepeque
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered by Xinca xin)
Linguist List	qhq Jumaytepegue
Glottolog	xink1235
ELP	Jumaytepeque Xinka

Jumaytepeque is an extinct Xincan language of Guatemala that was spoken in the region of Jumaytepeque. It was discovered by Lyle Campbell in the 1970s.

Phonology

Consonants

Jumaytepeque consonants ^{[2] [3]}

		Labial	Alveolar		Post- alveolar	Retroflex	Velar	Glottal
			plain	sibilant
Stop/ Affricate	plain	p	t		t͡ʃ		k	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ		kʼ
	voiced	b	d				( ɡ )
Fricative			ɬ	s		ʂ		h
Nasal	plain	m	n
	glottalized	mʼ	nʼ
Approximant	plain		l		j		w
	glottalized		lʼ		jʼ		wʼ
Trill	plain		r
	glottalized		rʼ

Vowels

The Xincan languages all have 6 vowels. ^{[4] [5]}

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

References

1. Campbell 1997:166
2. Frauke, Sachse; Letteren, Faculteit der. "Reconstructive description of eighteenth-century Xinka grammar". openaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
3. Rogers, Christopher (2010). A comparative grammar of Xinkan. University of Utah.
4. Frauke, Sachse; Letteren, Faculteit der. "Reconstructive description of eighteenth-century Xinka grammar". openaccess.leidenuniv.nl. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
5. 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.