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Atlas Lingüístico de Guatemala
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

99,211

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99,211 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

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Location description

Huehuetenango: San Pedro Soloma, San Juan Ixcoy, Barillas y Santa Eulalia

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Huehuetenango: San Pedro Soloma, San Juan Ixcoy, Barillas y Santa Eulalia

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159,030

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78,392 men; 80,638 women. Data for within Guatemala. (Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE, Guatemala, 2002 census).

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9,000 speakers in Chiapas.

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Guatemala; Chiapas, Campeche, and Quintana Roo, Mexico

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Spoken in Mexico in municipalities on the Chiapas border: Las Margaritas, La Trinitaria and La Independencia. Also spoken in the Mexican states, Campeche and Quintana Roo.

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Spoken in Mexico in municipalities on the Chiapas border: Las Margaritas, La Trinitaria and La Independencia. Also spoken in the Mexican states, Campeche and Quintana Roo.

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Vulnerable

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77,000

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77,700 in Guatemala (1998). (2013, unchanged).

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2009

Location and Context

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Guatemala

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Huehuetenango Department, Santa Eulalia

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Huehuetenango Department, Santa Eulalia

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99,211

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2005

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Guatemala

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1,996 square kilometer area.

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15.3333333333,-91.6666666667

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

77,700

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