Ch'orti' language
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| Ch'orti' Ch'orti' |
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| Spoken in: | Guatemala, Honduras | |
| Region: | Copán | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 20,000 | |
| Language family: | Mayan Cholan-Tzeltalan Cholan Chorti Ch'orti' |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | myn | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | caa | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Ch'orti' language (sometimes also Chorti) is a Mayan language, spoken by the indigenous Maya people who are also known as the Ch'orti' or Ch'orti' Maya. Ch'orti' is a direct descendant of the Classic Maya language in which many of the pre-Columbian inscriptions using the Maya script were written. This Classic Maya language is also attested in a number of inscriptions made in regions whose inhabitants most likely spoke a different Mayan language variant, including the ancestor of Yukatek Maya.
Ch'orti' is spoken mainly in Guatemala, and it is also indigenous the adjacent areas of Honduras, where it is nearly extinct.
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- Houston, SD, J. Robertson, and DS Stuart, The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions, Current Anthropology 41:321-356 (2000).
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