A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala

Acknowledgements

I have many people to thank for helping this project progress to this point. First, I want to warmly thank the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., (FAMSI) for sponsoring this field research and editing process necessary to document the Ch'orti' language. Needless to say, without their support over three different projects, this dictionary (and the larger version forthcoming) would not have been possible. I also want to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) for contributing to previous field research in which considerable data was accumulated. I am also grateful to Reitaku University for providing financial support for fieldwork with the Ch'orti'. Thanks also goes to the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Program (FLAS) who provided two fellowships in the past to study spoken Ch'orti' in Guatemala. There are also many individuals who have contributed in different ways to this research project, among them are Søren Wichmann, Terrence Kaufman, Brian Stross, Michael D. Carrasco, Johanna Kufer, Brent Metz, Nikolai Grube, and Joel Sherzer.

I especially want thank the Ch'orti' whose enthusiasm in contributing to this research so positively affected my desire to fully document their language. In particular, I want to recognize the major contributions of Lucas López de Rosa and Gregorio Pérez Marcos, who spent more than a month each checking 400 pages of data in January of 2005.  Above all, I want to thank my primary consultant, Hipólito Ohajaca Pérez, together with whom I have enjoyed more than 3,000 hours of investigation of the Ch'orti' language and culture (Figure 4). His remarkable in-depth knowledge of the Ch'orti' language and culture has proven to be an endless font of information and personal source of inspiration.

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