Jakaltek language

Jakaltek
Popti’
jab' xub'al
Native to	Guatemala, Mexico
Region	Huehuetenango, Chiapas
Ethnicity	Jakaltek
Native speakers	(9,500 cited 1990)
Language family	Mayan Q’anjobalan–Chujean Q'anjobalan Kanjobal–Jacaltec Jakaltek
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	popt1235
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The Jakaltek /hɑːkəlˈtɛk/ language (Jacalteco), also called Popti’, is a Mayan language of Guatemala spoken by 9,000 Jakaltek people in the department of Huehuetenango, and some 500 the adjoining part of Chiapas in southern Mexico. The name Popti' for the language is used by the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala and the Guatemalan Congress.

Municipalities where Jakaltek is spoken include the following (Variación Dialectal en Popti', 2000).

The Eastern Jakaltek language includes the following phonemes:

It also has the vowels a /a/, e /e/, i /i/, o /o/, u /u/

Eastern Jakaltek is one of the few languages besides the Malagasy language of Madagascar to make use of an n-trema character in its alphabet. In both languages, the n-trema represents a velar nasal consonant [ŋ] (like "ng" in "bang").

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