Awakatec

Qa'yol
Spoken in	Guatemala
speaker	approx. 10,000 to 35,000 speakers
Linguistic classification	Mayan languages Quiché Mam languages Mam languages Awakatec
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	agu

Awakatek (Aguacateco, Awakateko, Balamiha, Qa'yol) is a Maya language spoken by around 10,000 to 35,000 indigenous people in the municipality of Aguacatán in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes in the Huehuetenango department in Guatemala .

distribution

In the 2002 census of Guatemala, 9,613 people (0.1%) said Awakateko was their mother tongue; 11,068 people (0.1%) identified themselves as Awakatecs . These numbers are far below other estimates, for example by Tzian (1994), who gives 34,476 speakers in Guatemala. According to SIL International , Akatek is spoken by around 18,000 people in Guatemala in 1998.

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. ↑ Leopoldo Tzian (1994): Mayas y en cifras ladinos. El caso de Guatemala
4. ↑ Awakateko - A language of Guatemala