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Itzaʼ language

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1311: 1872: 225:. The Itzaʼ language reflects this history in its nomenclature for the natural world: Itzaʼ words referring to agriculture and agricultural practices remain unchanged since first being recorded. Additionally, Itzaʼ possesses a rich vocabulary for crops and animals that encodes specific information about different varietals and individuals of the species. 824:
Itzaʼ possesses a rich vocabulary of agriculture and taxonomy. Itza has specific words to encode various properties of different varietals and individuals within a species. Plants and animals of different size, color, and taste are referred to with different terms. Additionally, agricultural terms in
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The categories tense, aspect, and mood are interwoven in Itzaj Maya verbal and adverbial morphosyntax. Itzaj narrative discourse suggests a division between what a person knows from personal experience centered in one's home and town (the actual), and what is less known, but imaginable, further away
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The government of Guatemala banned the speaking of Itzá in the 1930s and two generations of Itzá Maya have grown up learning only Spanish. The late 1980s brought an increase in interest among Maya people, including the Itzá, in preserving their cultural heritage. The Guatemalan government has set up
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Discourse, both common and mythological, often employs framing particles—particles placed before and after a phrase in order to frame the phrase within the discourse as a whole. These particles convey the spatial and temporal relationships between new and old pieces of information in the discourse,
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to mark the future tense: the mood is coupled with a temporal adjective to form a future construction. The past tense is similarly constructed by using the perfect tense and temporal adjectives. Similarities in the irrealis and perfect constructions may suggest that the Itzaʼ consider the past and
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is marked with the same ergative particle as is used in verbal constructions. Possession constructions are marked differently based on whether the possession is inherent or non-inherent. Body parts, family members, and personal property are marked as being possessed differently than are parts of a
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Discourse in Itzaʼ is marked by its heavy use of repetition and linguistic parallelism. Words and linguistic constructions are often repeated throughout a sentence order to draw emphasis to what is being spoken. The resulting sentences are thus composed of several, complete phrases such as in the
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Atran, Chase, Fedick, Knapp, McKillop, Marcus, Schwartz., Webb, Scott, Arlen F., Scott L., Gregory, Heather, Joyce, Norman B., Malcolm C. (1993). "Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry".
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Itzaʼ have been virtually uninfluenced by contact with the Spanish, allowing some insight into the commonplace vocabulary of pre-contact Itza.
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The following chart shows the consonant phonemes of Itza: Where the orthography differs from the IPA notation, the orthography used by the
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The following chart shows the vowel phonemes of Itza. All vowels except /ə/ have long equivalent, and vowel length is contrastive.
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Bricker, Victoria (January 1994). "Reviewed Work(s): Itzá Maya Texts with a Grammatical Overview by Charles Andrew Hofling".
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Atran, Medin, Ross, Lynch, Coley, Ucan Ek, Vapnarsky, Scott, Douglas, Norbert, Elizabeth, John, Edilberto, Valentina (1999).
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in English, a style of discourse where simple, coordinating sentences are preferred over long, subordinating sentences.
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and professions have marked gender, while other categories do not. The gender markers of Itzaʼ also play the role of
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is marked by the addition of a suffix and the movement of the topicalized word to the sentence initial position.
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The modern Itza people are the last of the Lowland Maya to be able to directly trace their heritage back to the
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whole. Additional possession constructions exist and are used generally where the possessor is inanimate.
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The phonemes /d, g, f, v, r, ɲ/ have been adopted from Spanish and are present only in loanwords.
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all typically follow the words they modify; adjectives can also occur in this position.
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Lois, Ximena (1998). "Gender Markers as "Rigid Determiners" of the Itzaj Maya World".
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until 1697. During this time, the Itza people resettled their ancestral home in the
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subjects, while absolutive person markers indicate intransitive subjects in the
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Generally, modifiers precede the words they modify: adjectives, numerals,
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Hofling, Charles A. (1987). "Discourse Framing in Itzá Maya Narrative".
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Hofling, Charles Andrew (1998). "Irrealis and Perfect in Itzaj Maya".
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Hofling, Charles A. (1990). "Possession and Ergativity in Itzá Maya".
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Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015).
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future to be similar, which reflects the Itzaʼ worldview that
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Itzaʼ was the language of administration across much of the
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Itzaʼ is spoken on the north shore of Lake Petén Itzá in
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University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 1991. 321 pp.
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Index

Guatemala
Petén
Itza
Language family
Mayan
Yucatecan
ISO 639-3
itz
Glottolog
itza1241
ELP
Itza'
endangered
Mayan language
Itza people
Lake Peten Itza
Guatemala
Belize
Yucatán Peninsula
Chichen Itza
Mesoamerica
Petén Basin
San Jose, Guatemala
pre-Columbian era
ISO 639-3
language codes
Yucatec
Lacandon
Mopan
Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala

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