Cakchiquel

WALS coordinates: 14° 30′ N, 91° W

spoken in Guatemala

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Alternative Names

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

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
33A Coding of Nominal Plurality Mixed morphological plural Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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70A The Morphological Imperative Second singular and second plural Verbal Categories
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72A Imperative-Hortative Systems Maximal system Verbal Categories
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73A The Optative Inflectional optative absent Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb VOS Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Noun-Relative clause Word Order
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90C Postnominal relative clauses Noun-Relative clause (NRel) dominant Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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96A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun VO and NRel Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and AdjN Word Order
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108A Antipassive Constructions Implicit patient Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Double negation Simple Clauses
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129A Hand and Arm Identical Lexicon
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130A Finger and Hand Different Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 11 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Green vs. blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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143B Obligatory Double Negation NegVNeg Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes VNeg Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144T The Position of Negative Morphemes in Verb-Initial Languages ObligDoubleNeg Word Order
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144U Double negation in verb-initial languages NegVNegOS Word Order
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144V Verb-Initial with Preverbal Negative Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144W Verb-Initial with Negative that is Immediately Postverbal or between Subject and Object Word&OnlyWithAnotherNeg Word Order
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144X Verb-Initial with Clause-Final Negative No clause-final neg Word Order
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