Mam people
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617,171[1] |
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| Mam, Spanish | |||||||||
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| Catholic, Evangelicalist, Maya religion | |||||||||
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| Ixil, Tektitek |
The Mam are an Native American people of the highlands of western Guatemala.
In Pre-Columbian times the Mam were part of the Maya civilization, and the Mam language, still spoken as a first language by many, is in the Maya language family.
The Pre-Columbian Mam capital was Zaculeu. Many Mam live in and around the nearby modern city of Huehuetenango. The city of Quetzaltenango was originally Mam. Many more Mam live in small hamlets in the mountains, keeping many of their native traditions.
[edit] Notes
- ^ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico. Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (2002). Retrieved on 2008-05-27. Note that the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) mentions a different number[1]
- ^ http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=gt
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