Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bricker, Victoria R.
• Orie, Olanike O.

Titel

Schwa in the Modern Yucatecan Languages and Orthographic Evidence of Its Presence in Colonial Yucatecan Maya, Colonial Chontal, and Precolumbian Maya Hieroglyphic Texts1

Ist Teil von

• International journal of American linguistics, 2014-04, Vol.80 (2), p.175-207

Ort / Verlag

University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article describes patterns of schwa found in spoken Yucatecan languages (Itsaj, Lacandon, Mopan, and Modern Yucatec) and Colonial Yucatec. It shows that although the alphabet used for recording Colonial Yucatec does not include schwa, it is nevertheless possible to demonstrate that Colonial Yucatec actually had schwa. We argue that variation in the spelling of roots and affixes that in other Yucatecan languages have schwa can be used for identifying schwa in Colonial Yucatec and that the same method can be used for revealing the presence of schwa in Colonial Chontal, a Cholan language, as well as in texts written in the logosyllabic script that recorded Mayan languages spoken in Classic and Postclassic times.