Uspantek language
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| Uspanteko | ||
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| Spoken in: | Guatemala | |
| Region: | Quiché (department) | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 3,000 | |
| Language family: | Mayan Quichean-Mamean Greater Quichean Uspanteko Uspanteko |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | myn | |
| ISO 639-3: | usp | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Uspanteko (Uspanteco, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to K'iche'. It is spoken in the Uspantán municipio, in the Department El Quiché. It is notable for being the native language of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (The others are Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil) it distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.
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