Akatekish

Akateko
Spoken in	Guatemala
speaker	approx. 40,000 to 60,000 speakers
Linguistic classification	Mayan languages Q'anjob'alan-Chujean Q'anjob'alan Akatekish
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	-

Akatekisch (Acateco) is a Maya language spoken by around 40,000 to 60,000 indigenous people around San Miguel Acatán in the Huehuetenango department in Guatemala .

distribution

Akatek is spoken mainly in the municipalities of San Miguel Acatán and San Rafael La Independencia and parts of Concepción Huista, Nentón and San Sebastián Coatán in the Guatemalan Huehuetenango department , as well as in neighboring areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas .

In the 2002 census in Guatemala, 35,763 people (0.3%) said Akateko was their first language; 39,370 people (0.4%) identified themselves as Akateks. According to SIL International , Akatek was spoken by 48,500 mostly monolingual people in Guatemala in 1998, as well as by around 10,000 Guatemalan refugees and around 100 natives in Mexico in 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.
2. ↑ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.
3. ↑ Akateko - A language of Guatemala