Linguistic terms translated into Ch’ol

For our presentation for SSILA, it was a bit complicated to translate linguistic terms into Ch’ol, so for us it was a challenge to find the right words to use to for various terms in order to translate what we wanted to say properly.

I really liked this part because I could learn more about my native language and I felt proud to be able to understand it this way. In the future, I would like to continue to study it to gain a more profound knowledge of my language Ch’ol.

All this motivates me to continue learning and studying this wonderful discipline: linguistics.

  • Ña’alty’añ > Grammar
  • Yochibty’añ > Introduction
  • Päsoñel > Presentation
  • K’aba’äl > Noun
  • Yilal > Adjetive
  • Cha’leyaj > Verb
  • K’axcha’leyaj > Transitive verb
  • Machbä k’axcha’leyaj > Intransitive verb
  • Pi’leyaj > Adverb
  • Yañälbä ty’añ > Dialectal variant
  • Pästyäl > Determiner
  • Käñbilbä ty’añ > Definiteness
  • Käñälbä > Definite
  • Machbä kañäl > Indefinite
  • Ty’añ ñaxañ albilixbä > Anaphoricity
  • Juñsujmach käñälbä ty’añ > Unique definite
  • Ajcha’leyaj > Subject
  • Ajcha’leñtyel > Object
  • Icha’añtyej > Possessive
  • Ty’añ mubä ichäkä ajlel > Generic referent
  • Ajyomty’añ > Linguist
  • Yomty’añ > Linguistics

-Morelia Vázquez Martínez

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