User:Softstarkid/Akatek language

History
Akateko is closely related to Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek. The three languages together form the Qʼanjobʼal-Jakaltek sub-branch, which together with the Mochoʼ language form the Qʼanjobʼalan sub-branch, which again, together with the Chujean languages, Chuj and Tojolabʼal, form the branch Qʼanjobalan–Chujean. It is believed that Qʼanjobʼal–Jakaltek split into Akateko, Qʼanjobʼal and Jakaltek some 500 to 1,500 years ago.

Classifiers
Akatek has 14 nominal classifiers

Like other Mayan languages, such as Q'anjob'a l and Chuj, all nouns in Akatek are organized into three categories, humans, animals and inanimate objects. All are marked with classifier and there is no generic classifier.

Phonology
Akatek unique for having phonemic long vowels, recent innovation, sound change from Q'anjob'al.

Semantics
Verbs

In Mayan languages such as Akatek, the standard verb roots are classified in multiple categories at once.