Kʼicheʼ
· KʼicheʼVulnerableMaya · Altiplano occidental de GuatemalaWord Constructor
These languages build new words by joining roots and affixes. Type in Spanish or English and construct the word or phrase in the language.
Morphology explorer
Break a word into roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
Language structure
How this language works — its word order, morphology, sounds and writing. This reference also grounds the AI Word Constructor.
Word order
VOS/VSO order; head-marking languages.
Morphology
Ergative-absolutive and moderately agglutinative: the verb carries ergative (Set A) prefixes and absolutive (Set B) markers plus aspect/mood and status suffixes; nouns take possessive prefixes. They use numeral classifiers.
Sounds (phonology)
A contrast between plain and glottalized (ejective) consonants; Yucatec Maya additionally has phonemic tone and vowel length.
Writing system
INALI/ALMG Latin orthographies using an apostrophe for glottalization (k', t', ch').
Key features
- Ergative-absolutive alignment on the verb.
- Possession by prefixes (in-/a-/u- in Yucatec).
- Numeral classifiers for counting.
This reference is also fed to the AI Word Constructor so it builds words the way the language actually works.