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Atlas Lingüístico de Guatemala
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

38,253

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38,253 personas para el año 2001, según un algoritmo desarrollado con base en las proyecciones del Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

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2003

Location and Context

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Guatemala, Mexico

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Location description

Huehuetenango: San Mateo Ixtatán, San Sebastián Coatán and some villages of Nentón.

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Huehuetenango: San Mateo Ixtatán, San Sebastián Coatán and some villages of Nentón.

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2010

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16.1203, -92.0407; 15.8259, -91.4783

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64,438

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31,667 men; 32,771 women. 2002 census. Data for within Guatemala.

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2009

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Native Speakers Worldwide

51,200

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Ethnologue distinguishes 2 Chuj languages, Ixtatán Chuj [cnm] and San Sebastián Coatán Chuj [cac]. Other classifiers recognize only one. Ixtatán Chuj has 31,600 speakers, San Sebastián Coatán Chuj has 19,600 (1991).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Guatemala; Mexico;

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Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala; some in nearby Mexico.

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Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala; some in nearby Mexico.

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38,253

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2005

Location and Context

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Guatemala; Mexico

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1,415 square kilometers.

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1,415 square kilometers.

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29,000

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This speaker number is for Guatemala. "also a few thousand in Mexico" (Adelaar & Quesada 2007:199).

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2007

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Guatemala; Mexico

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Vulnerable

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19,458

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Meso-America
    Adelaar, William and J. Diego Quesada. 2007. "Meso-America." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. 197-209. London and New York: Routledge.
  3. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  6. ATLAS SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICO DE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN AMÉRICA LATINA
    2009. "ATLAS SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICO DE PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN AMÉRICA LATINA." 2: proeibandes. Online: http://www.proeibandes.org/atlas/tomo_2.pdf.
    http://www.proeibandes.org/atlas/tomo_2.pdf
  7. Idiomas mayas: Número de hablantes y extension territorial
    Liliana Pellicer. 2005. "Idiomas Mayas: Número De Hablantes Y Extension Territorial." In Revista D, Prensa Libre. Online: http://douglasvasquez.blogspot.com/2011/03/idiomas-mayas-numero-de-hablantes-y.html and http://www.monografias.com/trabajos-pdf2/guatemala-lenguas-mayas-desaparecer/guatemala-lenguas-mayas-desaparecer.pdf.
    http://douglasvasquez.blogspot.com/2011/03/idiomas-mayas-numero-de-hablantes-y.html and http://www.monografias.com/trabajos-pdf2/guatemala-lenguas-mayas-desaparecer/guatemala-lenguas-mayas-desaparecer.pdf