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Awakatek
Qa'yol
Native to
Guatemala
Region
Huehuetenango
Ethnicity
12,500 Awakatek (2019 census)
Native speakers
10,100 in Guatemala (2019 census)[1] 20 in Mexico (2020 census)[2]
Language family
Mayan
Quichean–Mamean
Greater Mamean
Ixilan
Awakatek
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Guatemala
Mexico
Regulated by
Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3
agu
Glottolog
agua1252
ELP
Awakateko
Awakatek (also known as Aguateco, Awaketec, Coyotin,[3] and Balamiha, and natively as Qa'yol) is a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala, primarily in Huehuetenango and around Aguacatán.[4][5] The language only has fewer than 10,000 speakers, and is considered vulnerable by UNESCO. In addition, the language in Mexico is at high risk of endangerment, with fewer than 2,000 speakers in the state of Campeche in 2010[6] (although the number of speakers was unknown as of 2000[7][8]).
Awakatek is closely related to Ixil and the two languages together form the sub-branch Ixilean, which together with the Mamean languages, Mam and Tektitek, form a sub-branch Greater-Mamean, which again, together with the Greater-Quichean languages, ten Mayan languages, including Kʼicheʼ, form the branch Quichean–Mamean.
^Awakatek at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
^Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020 INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.
^"Global Recordings Network: Aguateco language". Global Recordings Network. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^Cabral, Ernesto Díaz Couder (2001). "Culturas e interculturalidad en Guatemala". Archived from the original on 2010-02-15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^Brintnall, Douglas E., 1946- (1979). Revolt against the dead : the modernization of a Mayan community in the highlands of Guatemala. New York: Gordon and Breach. ISBN 0677051700. OCLC 4638179.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^"Awakatecos - Lengua". Atlas de los Pueblos Indígenas de México. Retrieved 14 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
^"UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2017-10-11.
^Aridjis, H. (22 February 2009). "Homero aridjis / reír en 7 mil lenguas". Reforma: 14.
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