Pocomchí language
Poqomchi ' | ||
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Spoken in |
Guatemala | |
speaker | almost 100,000
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
myn (Maya languages) |
The Pocomchí language , also Poqomchi or Poqomchí, is the language of the indigenous people of the Pocomchí in Guatemala and, with almost a hundred thousand speakers, is one of the larger Mayan languages .
distribution
The Pocomchí language is spoken in the Alta Verapaz , Baja Verapaz and El Quiché departments .
In the 2002 census, 92,941 people (0.9%) said Poqomchí as their mother tongue; 114,423 (1.0%) called themselves Poqomchí .
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
- Catálogo de Publicaciones de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural : Area lingüística Poqomchi
- Pueblo Poqomchi Tactiqueño