several Mayan glyphs inscriptions. 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. The affix 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, Chorti, and Tzotzil are far from complete, it is not possible to establish some cognates between these languages and Mayan glyphs. An alternative hypothesis developed by Houston, Robertson, and Stuart proposed that Classic Maya inscriptions between A.D. 250 and 850 convey to Eastern Ch’olan languages, more related to Chorti language than Ch’ol language. However, there is no consensus around the topic. See also Acala Chʼol Lakandon Chʼol Manche Chʼol Notes References [includes a grammatical sketch of the language] . External links El chʼol, website with links to unpublished scholarly work on the language Chol Collection of Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez and Jessica Coon at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Significant amount of audio and video recordings in Chʼol with transcriptions and Spanish translations. Chol Collection of Carol Rose Little at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Audio and video recordings in Chʼol with transcriptions and Spanish translations. Mayan Languages Collection of Victoria Bricker at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains a recording of a Chʼol narrative from Tila, Chiapas. Mayan Languages Collection of Nicholas Hopkins at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains many recordings in Chʼol as well as Chuj, another Mayan language. Agglutinative languages Mayan languages Mesoamerican languages Indigenous languages of Mexico