Sakapultek language
| Sakapultek | |
|---|---|
| Sacapulteco | |
| Native to | Guatemala |
| Region | El Quiché |
| Ethnicity | Sakapultek |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2006)[1] |
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Mayan
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| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in |
Guatemala[2] |
| Regulated by | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
quv |
| Glottolog |
saca1238[3] |
Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a Mayan language very closely related to K'iche' (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Sacapulas, El Quiché department and in Guatemala City.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Sakapultek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Congreso de la República de Guatemala. "Decreto Número 19-2003. Ley de Idiomas Nacionales". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sacapulteco". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.) (2009). "Sakapulteko". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version) (16 ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ↑ The official 2002 census mentions a lower figure of 6.973 Sakapulteko speakers. See "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
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