Thread: Acateco Dialect
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Old 03-26-2007, 12:56 PM   #4
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Lightbulb ACATECO (aka: Kanjobal)

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Originally Posted by Veronica
Is this dialect derived from Spanish?
I've never heard of it, maybe it's a mixture of Spanish and Nahuatl, or Mayan, or some other original language.

Kanjobal is a Mayan dialect spoken by natives in northern part of Guatemala and by some whom I believe migrated to southern Mexico during the civil war.
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