Tzutuhil language

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Tzutuhil

Spoken in

Guatemala
speaker 60,000 to just under 100,000
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2 ( B ) myn (all Maya) ( T ) -

The Tzutuhil language , also Tz'utujil, is the language of the indigenous people of the Tzutuhil in Guatemala and, with almost a hundred thousand speakers, is one of the larger Mayan languages .

distribution

The Tzutuhil language is spoken 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, and by a small group in San Lucas Tolimán. The language area used to be much larger.

In the 2002 census, 63,237 people (0.6%) said Tz'utujil as their mother tongue; 78,498 (0.6%) described themselves as Tz'utujil .

SIL International divides the language into two languages, East Tzutuhil (50,000 speakers in 1998, code tzj) and West Tzutuhil (34,000 speakers in 1990, code tzt). With a total of 84,000, SIL gives the number of speakers significantly higher than the official census.

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. ^ Ethnologue.com: Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean, Quichean, Tzutujil

literature

  • Jon P. Dayley: Tzutujil Grammar. University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1985. ISBN 0-520-09962-1 .
  • Pablo García Ixmatá: Rukeemiik ja Tz'utujiil Chii ': Gramática tz'utujiil. Cholsamaj, Ciudad de Guatemala 1997. ISBN 99922-53-13-4
  • Francisco Pérez Mendoza, Miguel Hernández Mendoza: Diccionario Tz'utujil. Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín / Cholsamaj. Antigua Guatemala 1996.