Mam language

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Qyol mam

Spoken in

Guatemala
speaker 500,000
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

myn (Maya languages)

ISO 639-3

mam

The Mam language (Qyol mam) is the language of the Mam indigenous people in Guatemala and, with around half a million speakers, is one of the most widely spoken Mayan languages .

distribution

Mommy girl

The Mam-language area covers large parts of the highlands of Guatemala, especially in the departments of Huehuetenango , Quetzaltenango and San Marcos as well as in the Mexican state of Chiapas . Aside from a few remote areas, most mam speakers also have some command of Spanish .

In the 2002 census, 477,717 (4.6%) said Mam was their mother tongue; 617,171 (5.5%) identified themselves as Mam .

Mam dialects

Mam language Region around Number of speakers
North Mam Huehuetenango approx. 200,000 in Guatemala
approx. 1,000 in Mexico
South Mam Quetzaltenango approx. 125,000 in Guatemala
Central Mam San Marcos approx. 100,000 in Guatemala
Tajumulco Mam San Marcos approx. 35,000 in Guatemala
Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam Huehuetenango approx. 50,000 in Guatemala
approx. 10,000 in Mexico
Tacaneco (Takanek) San Marcos (rural areas west of Tacaná) approx. 20,000 in Guatemala
approx. 1,000 in Mexico

Until recently, SIL International ran the regional variants as separate languages:

  • North mam [mam]
  • South Mam [mms]
  • Central Mam [mvc]
  • Tajumulco-Mam [mpf]
  • Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam [mvj]
  • Takanek (Tacaneco) [mtz]

With the 16th edition of the Ethnologue , however, these codes were merged with the code [mam] (Mam).

literature

  • Juventino de Jesús Pérez Alonzo: Pujb'il Yol Mam: Diccionario Bilingüe Estándar Mam-Español. 1st edition. OKMA u. a., Antigua 2007, ISBN 978-99922-53-40-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  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.
  3. Tacanec - A language of Guatemala . Ethnologue.com
  4. ^ Mam - A language of Guatemala . Ethnologue.com
  5. Change request documentation for: 2008-055 . SIL International