Tektitekish

B'a'aj
Spoken in	Guatemala
speaker	2,000 to 6,000 speakers
Linguistic classification	Mayan languages Quiché Mam languages Mam languages Tektitekish
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	-

Tektitek (Tectiteco, Teco, B'a'aj) is a Mayan language spoken by about 2000 to 6000 indigenous people in the municipalities of Tectitán and Cuilco in the Huehuetenango department in Guatemala as well as in the Amatenango de la Frontera and Mazapa de Madero municipalities in the state Chiapas is spoken in Mexico .

Tektitek is related to the Mam language .

In the 2002 census of Guatemala, 1,144 people said Tektiteko was their mother tongue; 2077 people called themselves Tektiteks. According to SIL International , Tektitek is spoken by 4900 people in Guatemala and 1000 in Mexico in 2002.

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. ^ Tektiteko - A language of Guatemala