Ch’olti’ language

See also: Ch'orti' language

Ch'olti'
Spoken in	Guatemala, Manche region
Native speakers	extinct
Language family	Mayan Western Branch Ch'olan-Tzeltalan Ch'olan Chorti Ch'olti'
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	qjt

The Ch'olti' language is an extinct Mayan language which was spoken in the Manche region of eastern Guatemala. It is only known from a single manuscript written between 1685 and 1695 which was first studied by Daniel Garrison Brinton. Ch'olti' belongs to the Cho'lan branch of the Mayan languages and is closely related to Chontal and especially Ch'orti'. The Ch'olti' language has become of particular interest for the study of Mayan Hieroglyphs since it seems that most of the glyphic texts are written in an ancient variety of Ch'olti' called Classic Ch'olti'an by epigraphers.^[1] and which is thought to have been spoken as a prestige dialect throughout the Maya area in the classic period^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Houston, Robertson, and Stuart (2000).
2. ^ Kettunen & Helmke (2006) p. 12.

References

Fought, John (1984). "Choltí Maya: A sketch". In Munro S. Edmonson (Volume ed.). Supplement to Handbook of Middle American Indians, Vol. 2: Linguistics. Victoria R. Bricker (General Editor). Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 43–55. ISBN 0-292-77577-6. 

Kettunen, Harri; and Christophe Helmke (2005) (PDF). Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs. Wayeb and Leiden University. http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/handbook/index.html. Retrieved 2006-10-10. 

Houston, Stephen D.; John Robertson, and David Stuart (2000). "The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions". Current Anthropology 41 (3): pp.321–356. ISSN 0010-3204.