Poqomam is a Mayan language , closely related to Poqomchiʼ . It is spoken by 50,000 or so people in several small pockets in Guatemala , the largest of which is in Jalapa department .
21-437: Poqomam is spoken in the following municipalities of Escuintla , Jalapa , and Guatemala departments ( Variación Dialectal en Poqom, 2000 ). In the journal Natural Language & Linguistic Theory it is noted that if subjects are realized as negative indefinite pronouns, they may also trigger agent focus. The Mayan languages differ with respect to the degree of how obligation for agent focus. In this case Poqomam's agent focus
42-592: A different location because of the numerous eruptions of it. Spanish soldier Antonio de Guzmán is credited with being the one that found the town when the conquistadors arrived in the 1520s. After the Spanish conquest of Guatemala the town was in charge of the franciscans , who had convents and doctrines in the area covered by the modern departments of Sacatepéquez , Chimaltenango , Sololá , Quetzaltenango , Totonicapán , Suchitepéquez and Escuintla . The "Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús" (English:"Province of
63-491: Is a town with a population of 17,021 (2018 census), and a municipality in the Chimaltenango department of Guatemala . It is located at the base of Volcán de Fuego , which has destroyed the town several times, most recently on 15 October 1974. San Pedro Yepocapa has its origins in the times before the Spanish conquest of Guatemala ; originally the town was right next to Volcán de Fuego , but it had to be moved to
84-533: Is an industrial city in Guatemala , its land extension is 4,384 km , and it is nationally known for its sugar agribusiness . Its capital is a municipality with the same name. Citizens celebrate from December 6 to 9 with a small fair in honor to The Immaculate Conception . In 2002 the city had a population of 86,678. It is located on the border of the central highlands and the Pacific coastal plain. Many of
105-490: Is done in all municipalities in accordance to the stated law. The mayors of Escuintla: Juventud Escuintleca football club play their home games at the Estadio Ricardo Muñoz Gálvez . Most recently they have again been playing in the second tier of Guatemalan football. Escuintla has a tropical monsoon climate ( Köppen : Am ). Yepocapa Yepocapa , also known as San Pedro Yepocapa ,
126-603: Is optional in all relevant contexts. qu hamʼ wach nobody toʔ-w-i help- AF - ITR r-eh 3 . E - DAT {qu hamʼ wach} toʔ-w-i r-eh nobody help-AF-ITR 3.E-DAT Nobody helped him Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) ( help ); These are every day greetings from Poqomam, which is one of the Mayan languages of Guatemala. The translations are provided by the International Journal of American Linguistics : According to American Anthropologist ,
147-680: The borbon reforms , the Franciscans where forced to giae their doctrines to the secular clergy . When the State of Guatemala was created on 11 October 1825, after independence from Spain, San Pedro Yepocapa was established as town, and then was raised to a municipality of the Chimaltenango District by a decree from 12 September 1839. By 1880 already had a population a little over a thousand focused mainly on agricultural activities. On 15 October 1974, tremors woke up people in
168-577: The Archdiocese of Guatemala archives and made public in 1944, describes Franciscan convents and doctrines in Guatemala and regarding the Acatenango convent says: "There is another visit town, named San Pedro Yepocapa, which is 16 km from the convent, on the way to the sea shore, on badly maintained road. The temperature of this town is warm because it is close to the coast". In 1754, as part of
189-584: The CA-2 and CA-9 highways cross here. The government of the cities of Guatemala are made of a municipal council. This is in accordance with article 254 in the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala . The municipal code, which is similar to the ordinary law and contains disposition that applies to all cities of Guatemala, establishes in article 9 that the municipal council covers
210-605: The Law recognizes that indigenous languages are essential parts of the national identity which must be promoted. This is a considerable change from the Guatemalan Constitution, which only recognizes indigenous languages as a part of the "national patrimony." The Mayans have taken a number of actions that are intended, in part, to address the problem of language status and language shift: Escuintla Escuintla ( Spanish pronunciation: [esˈkwintla] )
231-466: The deliberations and decisions of municipal issues. The municipal council integrates with accordance of what the Constitution declares in article 254 which says that the council consists of a mayor, trustees, and councilors that have been elected and may be reelected by the public for a period of four years. With respect to the municipal code, article 9 of the constitution explains that this system
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#1732794533853252-424: The indigenous language nahuatl «Itzcuintlán», which is a word composed of two words: · «Itzcuintli»: means "dog" · «tlan»: means "abundance" Therefore, Escuintla means "abundance or place of dogs". Escuintla used to be an important stop for trains going to Puerto San José until 2007. The city is among the more industrialized areas of the country. One of the most important agricultural products of
273-522: The main opposition party in the country after losing the presidency to Laugerud Garcia in fraudulent elections earlier that year , asked to all the mayors to help their colleagues from San Pedro Yepocapa and Acatenango , which were practically destroyed by the catastrophe; those two mayor belonged to DCG . Help began to arrive on 24 October 1974, when the eruption ceased and equipment from the Road General Direction of Guatemala arrived to
294-467: The most Holy Name of Jesus"), as the Franciscan area was then called, reached up to 24 convents by 1700. The Franciscans tried to have daily religious teaching for 6-year-old girls and older starting at 2:00 pm and for boys of the same age starting at sunset; the class lasted for 2 hours and consisted on memorizing the church teaching and prayers and to make some exercises with the catechism and it
315-409: The names of the municipalities of Guatemala consist of one of two things: the name of a catholic saint to worship the day the city was founded or a description with Náhuatl roots. These influences are due to the troops in command of Pedro de Alvarado who invaded the region in 1520. These troops were composed of Spanish soldiers and indigenous Tlaxcaltecs . The name Escuintla, comes from
336-464: The north of the municipality of Escuintla is Yepocapa (municipality of Chimaltenango ) and Alotenango (municipality of Sacatepequez ). To the East is Palin , San Vicente Pacaya , and Guanagazapa (municipality of Escuintla ). To the south is Masagua (municipality of Escuintla ). To the west is La Democracia , Siquinalá , and Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (municipality of Escuintla ). Today,
357-484: The point that Mexican authorities were on alert due to the amounts of it that they were getting. San Pedro Yepocapa was one of the most impacted towns, ending under more than 1m of ash after the four days that the eruption lasted; approximately 1100 people from Morelia hacienda and annexes had to be evacuated to temporary shelters in neighboring Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa , Escuintla or Patulul , Suchitepéquez . Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca —DCG— directors -then
378-595: The region is sugar cane . Other products are tobacco , seafood , and cattle . Escuintla is bathed by the waters of the Pacific, and produces about 43 percent of gross domestic product of Guatemala, is statistically the department, province or region in Mesoamerica with lower unemployment and extreme poverty , this contrasts with the economic and social reality of Guatemala. The city of Escuintla consists of 2 villages and 12 surrounding communities. The area includes 7 mountains, 55 rivers, 9 streams, and 21 brooks. To
399-423: The revitalization of Mayan languages in Guatemala has increased in importance. In the 1996 Peace Accords the idea of officializing or co-officializing Mayan languages was introduced. Unfortunately in the 1999 referendum of the constitutional changes it was turned down. In May 2003, the Guatemala congress passed the " Law of National Languages " that, while it states that Spanish is the official language of Guatemala,
420-541: The settlements surrounding the Volcán de Fuego at 2:00 AM, followed by rumbling and cinders and ashes falling from the sky, which submerged the town into darkness for a few days. President Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García gave order to evacuate people, most of whom were sorry about losing all of their belongings after the eruption; in the meantime, ash was travelling as far away s the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca , to
441-613: Was run by a priest or by elder natives, called "fiscales". Adults attended Mass every Sunday and holiday and after mass, there were religious teachings in their own language. Lent was a time of the year when the friars prepared the natives thoroughly, using their own language to accomplish their goals; every Friday of Lent there was a procession following the Rosary steps all the way to the Calvary temple. A document from Franciscan friar Francisco de Zuaza written on 8 July 1686, found in
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