Jakaltekisch

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Popti '(Abxubal)

Spoken in

Guatemala
speaker almost 100,000
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

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ISO 639-3

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The Popti 'language (Popti'), Jakaltekisch (Jacalteco) or Abxubal is a Maya language spoken by almost 100,000 indigenous people of the Popti ' ethnic group in Guatemala and Mexico.

classification

Popti 'belongs together with the languages Kanjobal , Chuj , Acateco and Tojolabal to the Q'anjob'al language stem of the Maya languages. It is divided into a western and an eastern variant, which SIL International calls two languages.

distribution

Popti 'is spoken mainly in the Municipios Jacaltenango and Concepción Huista in the Guatemalan Huehuetenango department and in adjacent areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas .

In the 2002 census in Guatemala, 34,038 people (0.3%) gave Popti 'as their mother tongue; 47,024 people (0.4%) called themselves Popti ' . These numbers are far below other estimates, for example by Tzian (1994), who gives 83,814 speakers in Guatemala. According to SIL International, the western Jacalteco is spoken by 10,300 people in Mexico (1991) - mostly refugees from Guatemala - and 77,700 in Guatemala (1998), the eastern Jacalteco by 11,000 (1998) in Guatemala. According to the 2010 census, 602 people over 3 years of age who were permanently resident in Mexico spoke Yakaltek.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academia de lenguas Maya, Comunidad Lingüística Q'anjob'al
  2. ↑ Jakalteko, Western - A language of Guatemala ( Memento from October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Jakalteko, Eastern - A language of Guatemala
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Leopoldo Tzian (1994): Mayas y en cifras ladinos. El caso de Guatemala
  7. ^ INEGI 2010: Censo de Población y Vievienda 2010 , accessed April 7, 2011