Sakapultec
| Sakapulteko | ||
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Spoken in |
Guatemala | |
| speaker | approx. 10,000 to 40,000 speakers | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Sakapulteco (Sacapulteco) is a Maya language spoken by around 10,000 to 40,000 indigenous people in the Municipio Sacapulas in the Quiché Department in Guatemala .
The Sakapultk language is closely related to the Quiché language .
In the 2002 census in Guatemala, 6973 people (0.1%) said Sakapulteko as their mother tongue; 9763 people (0.1%) described themselves as Sakapultecs . These numbers are far below other estimates, for example by Tzian (1994), who gives 42,204 speakers in Guatemala. According to SIL International , Sakapultk is spoken by 15,000 people in Guatemala in 2006.
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.
- ↑ Leopoldo Tzian (1994): Mayas y en cifras ladinos. El caso de Guatemala
- ↑ Sakapulteko - A language of Guatemala