1. Family: Mayan
  2. Genus: Mayan

Cakchiquel

WALS coordinates: 14° 30′ N, 91° W

spoken in Guatemala

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cakchiquel
Routledge:
  • Kaqchikel
Other:
  • Kakchiquel
ISO 639-3:

Features

Feature Value References
Nominal Categories
Coding of Nominal Plurality Plural suffix
Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th
Verbal Categories
The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural
Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system
The Optative Inflectional optative absent
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS
Order of Subject and Verb VS
Order of Object and Verb VO
Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun
Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun
Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN
Simple Clauses
Antipassive Constructions Implicit patient
Negative Morphemes Double negation
Lexicon
Hand and Arm Identical
Finger and Hand Different
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6
Number of Basic Colour Categories 11
Green and Blue Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow