Tektitek language

Tektitek (name in Guatemala) or Teko (name in Mexico), called b'a'aj by native speakers, (also known as Tectiteco, Teco, Kʼontiʼl, Qyool, among others) is a Mayan language classified under the Mamean branch, spoken by the Teko people of Chiapas, Mexico and southern Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala. It is very closely related to the Mam language. A number of Tektitek speakers from Huehuetenango have settled in Mexico. Due to the close proximity of Huehuetenango to the Mexican border the speakers of the language have appropriated aspects of Mexican Spanish into the language. While 4,900 speakers were recorded in 2010 by Ethnologue, Little is known about the culture, but there are resources that provide vocabulary as well as other educational tools.

Teko is spoken in the municipalities of Amatenango de la Frontera, Frontera Comalapa and Mazapa de Madero in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Huehuetango Department is spoken in the municipalities of Tectitán and Cuilco.

Little is known about Tektitan peoples and their cultures. Linguist, Perez Alonzo, as well as Tektitekan clay pots. In the farming video, a speaker of Teco explains that the best time to sow corn is during full moons, because if sown afterwards, the corn is not as good, as it tends to break apart. and in the same year, also collaborated with author, Erico Simon Morales, to release a Tektiteko bilingual dictionary that is used in schools in Guatemala. Rutgers University is home to one of the copies of the vocabulary books. Some websites are also being changed towards helping individuals learn some Tektiteko vocabulary words and prayers, such as one ran by the Native Languages of the Americas Foundation.

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The coronal ejectives ( may be allophonically pre voiced.

Sources include Paul Stevenson's grammar and idioms book in 1986 and 1987, and Terrence Kaufman's book on the language titled, "Teco A New Mayan Language" written in 1969. Margaret Wendell also wrote a book on the Alphabet system of Tektitek.