Ch'olan languages

Ch’olan
Cholan–Tzeltalan
Geographic
distribution:
Mesoamerica
Linguistic classification:

Mayan

  • Western
    (Q’anjobalan–Ch’olan)
    • Ch’olan
Subdivisions:
  • Ch’olan proper
  • Tzeltalan
Glottolog: chol1286[1]

The Ch’olan AKA Cholan–Tzeltalan languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Mexico. These languages break into two sections being Cholan and Tzeltalan. Cholan has then two subsections being Western Cholan and Ch'olti'an; these composing the two larger sections of slight linguistic differences portrayed by Kuryłowicz’ Fourth Law of Analogy. The language Tzeltalan also breaks up into sections; Tzendal ( colonial Tzeltal), Tzotzil, and Wastekan. These subsections differ by similar linguistic differences.

Languages

See Mayan languages#Western branch for details.

See also

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cholan–Tzeltalan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

[1]


  1. Robertson, John S. (2010). "FROM COMMON CHOLAN-TZELTALAN TO CLASSICAL CH’OLTI’: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE LANGUAGE OF MAYAN HIEROGLYPHS" (PDF).
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