Tzutuhil
The Tzutuhil (also Tz'utujil ) are an indigenous people in Guatemala .
They belong to the Maya group and live on Lake Atitlán in the communities of San Juan La Laguna, San Pablo La Laguna, San Marcos La Laguna, San Pedro La Laguna and Santiago Atitlán, as well as a small group in San Lucas Tolimán, although their settlement area used to be was significantly larger.
The Tzutuhil were defeated in 1523 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado , who took advantage of a war between the Cakchiquel and the Tzutuhil.
The Tzutuhil language is one of the Mayan languages and is spoken by nearly 100,000 people in Guatemala. SIL International divides the language into two languages, East Tzutuhil (50,000 speakers, code tzj) and West Tzutuhil (34,000 speakers, code tzt).
literature
- Otto Stoll: The ethnic position of the Tz'utujil Indians of Guatemala , in: Annual reports of the Geographical-Ethnographic Society in Zurich, Volume 2 (1900–1901), pp. 27–60 ( digitized version )