Tojolabal is a Mayan language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico. It is related to the Chuj language spoken in Guatemala. Tojolabal is spoken especially in the departments of the Chiapanecan Colonia of Las Margaritas by about 20,000 people. Chiapas is a state in the southeast of Mexico. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... Mayan languages (alternatively: Maya languages[1]) constitute a language family spoken in Mesoamerica from southeastern Mexico to northern Central America and as far south as Honduras. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Mayan languages are a family of related languages spoken from South-Eastern Mexico through northern Central America as far south as Honduras. ... Chuj language is a language belonging to Kanjobalan-Chujean family of Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala. ...
The name Tojolabal derives from the phrase /tohol/ /ab'al/, meaning "right language". 19th century documents sometimes refer to the language and its speakers as "Chaneabal" (meaning "four languages", possibly a reference to the four Mayan languages -- Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojoloabal, and Chuj -- spoken in the Chiapas highlands and nearby lowlands along the Guatemala border). Tzotzil is a Mayan language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico. ... Tzeltal is a Maya language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico. ...
Anthropologist Carlos Lenkersdorf has claimed several linguistic and cultural features of the Tojolabal, primarily the language's ergativity shows that they do not give cognitive weight to the distinctions subject/object, active/passive. This is a version of the controversial Sapir-Worf hypothesis. An ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative) is one that treats the agent of transitive verbs distinctly from the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs. ... In linguistics, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) states that there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. ...
References
Lenkersdorf, Carlos (1996). Los hombres verdaderos. Voces y testimonios tojolabales. Lengua y sociedad, naturaleza cite y cultura, artes y comunidad cósmica. Mexico City: Siglo XXI. ISBN 968-23-1998-6.
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