Chortí

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The Chortí or Ch'orti ' are an indigenous people in Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador .

They are considered to be descendants of the Copán culture , from whose language - identifiable from the inscriptions - the Chortí language can be derived.

In the most recent census in 2002, 46,833 people in Guatemala (0.4%) and 4,200 in Honduras identified themselves as Chortí. At the same time, however, only 11,734 people (0.1%) in Guatemala said Ch'orti 'as their mother tongue. For Honduras, ten remaining speakers of the Chortí language were given in 1997. In El Salvador, after the genocide of the indigenous peoples in 1932, hardly anyone dared to admit to being indigenous. The Chortí language has died out there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ^ Ethnologue.com: Ch'orti '- A language of Guatemala

literature

  • SD Houston, J. Robertson, DS Stuart: The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions. Antropología actual 41, pp. 321-356 (2000).
  • Linda Schele and Peter Mathews: The Code of Kings. The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs . Touchstone Publisher, New York 1999. ISBN 978-0-684-80106-3

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