Mopan language

Mopan
Spoken in	Belize , Guatemala
speaker	about 8000 speakers
Linguistic ; classification	Mayan languages Yucatán languages Mopán-Itzá; ; Mopan ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-

The Mopan language or Mopán language is the language of the Mopan Maya indigenous people in Belize and Guatemala .

classification

Mopan belongs to the Mayan languages and is closely related to Mayathan in Yucatán, Mexico and Lacandon in Chiapas , but most closely related to the Itzá language spoken on Lake Peten-Itzá in Guatemala .

distribution

The Itzá Maya is spoken particularly in the Toledo District in Belize and in the Guatemalan Department of Peten .

There are 6,093 Mopan speakers in Belize, according to the 2000 census. In the 2002 census of Guatemala, 2,455 people said Mopan was their mother tongue; 2891 people referred to themselves as mopans .

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.

Web links

Charles Andrew Hofling (2005): Notes on Mopan Lexicon and Lexical Morphology (PDF; 583 kB)

[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.