Ixil language
| Ixil | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guatemala | |
| speaker | almost 100,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 | ( B ) myn (all Maya) | ( T ) - |
| ISO 639-3 |
ixl |
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The Ixil language is the language of the indigenous people of the Ixil in Guatemala and, with almost a hundred thousand speakers, is one of the larger Mayan languages .
distribution
The Ixil language is spoken in the Quiché department in particular in the municipalities of Santa Maria Nebaj , San Gaspar Chajul and San Juan Cotzal , the so-called "Ixil triangle" in the north-western highlands of Guatemala.
In the 2002 census, 83,574 people (0.8%) said Ixil was their mother tongue; 95,315 (0.8%) called themselves Ixil .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
literature
- Maximiliano Poma S., Tabita JT de la Cruz: Gramática del idioma ixil. Asociación Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín (PLFM), Antigua Guatemala 1996.