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47,669

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Atlas Lingüístico de Guatemala
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Native Speakers Worldwide

47,669

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47,669 personas para el año 2001, según un algoritmo desarrollado con base en las proyecciones del Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

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2003

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Guatemala

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Sololá: San Juan la Laguna, San Lucas Tolimán, San Pablo la Laguna, San Pedro la Laguna, Santa María Visitación, Santiago Atitlán. Suchitepéquez: Chicacao y San Miguel Panán.

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Sololá: San Juan la Laguna, San Lucas Tolimán, San Pablo la Laguna, San Pedro la Laguna, Santa María Visitación, Santiago Atitlán. Suchitepéquez: Chicacao y San Miguel Panán.

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Vulnerable

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63,237

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2010

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14.6394, -91.2301

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78,498

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39,341 women; 39,157 men. Data for within Guatemala. (Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE, Guatemala, 2002 census).

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83,800

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Ethnologue (2009) distinguished 2 Tz'utujil languages: Eastern Tz'utujil [tzj] 50,000 (1998). Western Tzutujil [tzt]: 33,800 (1990). Ethnologue (2013) has only one, [tzj]: 83,800 (1990–1998 SIL), increasing. 17,000 monolinguals (total number, unchanged).

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2009

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Guatemala;

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2005

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Guatemala

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Spoken in a 350 square kilometer area.

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