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IOL 2008 Problem #4 Copainalá Zoque
The following are words in Copainalá Zoque and their English translations:
| mis nakpatpit | with your cactus | kʌmʌŋdaʔm | shadows |
| nakpat | a cactus | ʔʌs ncapkʌsmʌšeh | as if above my sky |
| mokpittih | only with the corn | capšeh | like a sky |
| pokskukyʌsmʌtaʔm | above the chairs | pahsungotoya | for the squash |
| pokskuy | a chair | pahsunšehtaʔmdih | just like squashes |
| peroltih | only a kettle | tʌckotoyatih | only for the tooth |
| kocʌktaʔm | mountains | kumgukyʌsmʌ | above the town |
| komgʌsmʌtih | right above the post | kumgukyotoyataʔm | for the towns |
| ʔʌs ŋgom | my post | cakyotoya | for the vine |
| kʌmʌŋbitšeh | as if with the shadow | mis ncay | your vine |
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⚠ The Copainalá Zoque language is of the Mixe-Zoque linguistic family. It is spoken by approx. 10 000 people in the province Chiapas in southern Mexico.
ʌ ≈ u in but; c ≈ ts in hats (pronounced as a single consonant), nc ≈ nds in hands, š = sh, ŋ = ng in hang, y = y in yay!; ʔ is a specific consonant (the so-called glottal stop).
—Ivan Derzhanski