Social:Sipakapa language

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Short description: Mayan language spoken in western Guatemala
Sipakapense
Sipacapeño
Ri Qyolb’al
Native toSipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala
RegionSipacapa
Ethnicity17,400 Sipakapense (2019 census)
Native speakers
4,200 (2019 census)e25
Mayan
  • Quichean–Mamean
    • Greater Quichean
      • Sipakapense
Official status
Regulated byAcademia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3qum
Glottologsipa1247[1]

Sipakapense is a Mayan language, closely related to Kʼicheʼ spoken natively within indigenous Sipakapense communities in Western Guatemala. It is primarily based in the municipality of Sipacapa in the department of San Marcos.[2][3][4]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Sipacapense". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sipa1247. 
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  3. "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico". Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2002. http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html. 
  4. "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. https://www.almg.org.gt/portfolio-item/c-l-sipakapense.