The Chʼolan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Chʼol, Chʼoltiʼ, Chʼortiʼ, and Chontal. Notably...

hieroglyphic corpus—an Eastern Chʼolan variety found in texts written in the southern Maya area and the highlands, a Western Chʼolan variety diffused from the...

sub-branches belonging to Eastern Chʼolan; Chʼolti is, however, already extinct. There are some debates among scholars about how Chʼolan should be classified. John...

other Chʼolan languages. According to Kaufman and Norman (1984), long vowels in the Proto-Mayan language merged with their short counterparts in Chʼolan languages...

Chʼoltiʼ is a dead language belonging to the Ch’olan branch of the Mayan family of languages. It was spoken in Belize and Guatemala prior to its extinction...

with the Caribbean Indians (Amerindians, who had diverse languages called Caribbean languages), thus originated the black Caribs who dominated the Island...

Chʼoltian languages are retentions rather than innovations, and that the diversification of Chʼolan is indeed Post-Classical. The language of the classical...

Kanjobalan–Chujean languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Mexico and Guatemala. All Q'anjobalan languages are spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, four languages of the...

the Mayan languages, called Tzeltalan, which in turn forms a branch with the Chʼolan languages called Cholan–Tzeltalan. All these languages are the most...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

Yucatecan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Itzaj, Lacandon, Mopan, and Yucatec. The languages are...

Qʼanjobʼalan branch along with the languages of Tojolabʼal, Qʼanjobʼal, Akateko, Poptiʼ, and Mochoʼ which, together with the Chʼolan branch, Chuj forms the Western...

modern languages are used as the basis of the classification of the Mayan languages. Each sound change may be shared by a number of languages; a grey...

have been occasionally used to write Mayan languages of the Guatemalan Highlands. However, if other languages were written, they may have been written by...

accounts for only 3% of the world's languages. It is the fourth-most common default word order among the world's languages out of the six. It is a more common...

Jones 1998, pp. 384–385, 418–419). However, as languages of the Ch'olan branch of the Mayan languages family predominated in the southern Maya Lowlands...

published in 1992 by Messengers of Christ. Mayan languages are subdivided into Huastecan, Yucatecan, Ch'olan, Q'anjobalan, Mamean, Mopan and Quichean. William...

from the name of their main settlement. They were the last of a set of Ch'olan-speaking groups in the eastern Maya Lowlands to remain independent and...

Chʼolan; Late Preclassic text from Kaminaljuyu, in the highlands, also appears to be in, or related to, Chʼolan. The use of Chʼolan as the language of...

ISSN 0956-5361. S2CID 162510333. The parallel *oo Ͼ *uu Ͼ *u shift in Chʼolan is attested indirectly in the use of the T548 TUN/ HABʼ logogram with the...

typically refer to her as Lady Kʼatun Ajaw, her name in ancient Ch'olan, the language of the hieroglyphs, was probably Ix Winik Haab' Ajaw. Coming from...

Tswa–Ronga languages people Tsonga Ronga Tswa Venda people Shona people Chopi people Chopi Guitonga Chewa people Yeyi people Kavango languages people Ovambo...

inscriptions at the site have been identified as belonging to the Ch'olan Maya language. The site is laid out around three monumental complexes aligned...

group with their capital in the south of what is now Campeche state. The Chʼolan Maya-speaking Lakandon (not to be confused with the modern inhabitants...

earliest of these is thought to have occurred in circa 1654, when over 30 Ch’olan speakers north of Verapaz were relocated to Atiquipaque, in the Guazacapán...