Chortí language

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Ch'orti '

Spoken in

Guatemala , Honduras , formerly in El Salvador
speaker 12,000 to 30,000, including about 10 speakers in Honduras
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2 ( B ) myn (all Maya) ( T ) -

The Chortí language , also Ch'orti ', is the language of the indigenous people of the Chortí in Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador .

classification

Chortí is one of the Mayan languages and is most closely related to the Chol language in Chiapas , Mexico . An early form of the Chortí or initial form of the Chol and Chortí was used by the old inhabitants of Copán and is the language of the local inscriptions. The Ch'oltí , handed down from the colonial period in a vocabulary by Fray Francisco Morán (1695), can be seen as an intermediate stage in the development of today's Ch'ortí .

distribution

The Chortí language is spoken in the Jocotán and Camotán municipalities in the Chiquimula department of Guatemala . There are still a few speakers in the Copán department in western Honduras . It was also spoken in northern El Salvador , but has already died out there.

In the 2002 census in Guatemala, 11,734 people (0.1%) said Ch'orti 'as their mother tongue; Much more people, namely 46,833 (0.4%) referred to themselves as Ch´orti´ . SIL International gives the number of speakers for Ch'orti '[caa] in 2000, significantly higher than the official census, at 30,000.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John S. Robertson: A Ch'olti'an explanation for Ch'orti'an grammar: A postlude to the language of the classic Maya
  2. ↑ Los Chortis (Fhis) ( Memento of April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ^ Ethnologue.com: Ch'orti '- A language of Guatemala , John Lubeck 2000.

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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