Editing Chʼol language (section)

== Orthography ==

=== Alphabet ===
Chʼol writers have agreed upon the following alphabet, based on the [[Latin alphabet]], proposed and developed by Diaz Peñate in 1992.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
! Uppercase
| A || B || Ch || Chʼ || E
| I || J || K || Kʼ || L
| M || N || Ñ || O || P 
|-
! Lowercase
| a || b || ch || chʼ || e
| i || j || k || kʼ || l
| m || n || ñ || o || p
|-
| colspan="15" |
|-
! Uppercase
| Pʼ || R || S || T || Ts
| Tsʼ || Ty || Tyʼ || U || W
| X || Y || Ä || rowspan="2" | -
|-
! Lowercase
| pʼ || r || s || t || ts
| tsʼ || ty || tyʼ || u || w
| x || y || ä 
|}

=== Relationship with Mayan glyphs ===
The absence of glyphic material in [[Guatemala]] points that the calendar was a creation of the lowland Maya.<ref name=":0" /> Ch'ol has been considered one of the closer languages to several Mayan glyphs inscriptions.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hopkins |first1=Nicholas A. |url=http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/dictionary/hopkins/IntroCholDictionary2010.pdf |title=INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF CHOL (MAYAN): With a Sketch of the Grammar of Chol |last2=Josserand |first2=Kathryn |year=2010}}</ref> Lounsbury suggested that the ancient Palenqueños spoke a Proto-cholean language. A certain Palenque ruler has the glyph of a [[Quetzal]] head for his name and because the word for Quetzal in Chol is ''kuk'', it is conjectured that his name was Lord ''Kuk''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Matthews |first1=Peter |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/834378616 |title=Primera Mesa Redonda de Palenque : a Conference on the Art, Iconography, and Dynastic History of Palenque, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, December 14–22, 1973. |last2=Schele |first2=Linda |date=1974 |publisher=Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pre-Columbian Art Research |chapter=Lords of Palenque: The Glyphic Evidence |oclc=834378616}}</ref> The affix [[Diego de Landa|Landa]]'s ''I'' that occurs only with posterior date indicators retains resemblance with the idea of past time of Ch'ol, such in ''hobix'' 'five days hence,' ''hobixi'' 'five days ago.' As vocabularies of Ch'ol, [[Chontal Maya|Chontal]], Chorti, and [[Tzotzil language|Tzotzil]] are far from complete, it is not possible to establish some cognates between these languages and [[Maya script|Mayan glyphs]].<ref name=":0" />

An alternative hypothesis developed by Houston, Robertson, and Stuart proposed that [[Classic Maya language|Classic Maya]] inscriptions between A.D. 250 and 850 convey to Eastern [[Chʼolan languages|Ch'olan languages]], more related to [[Chʼortiʼ language|Chorti language]] than Ch'ol language.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Houston |first1=Stephen |last2=Robertson |first2=John |last3=Stuart |first3=David |date=2000-06-01 |title=The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/300142 |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=321–356 |doi=10.1086/300142 |issn=0011-3204 |pmid=10768879 |s2cid=741601}}</ref> However, there is no consensus around the topic.