Poqomam language

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Poqomam
Spoken in: Guatemala 
Region: Alta Verapaz
Total speakers: approx. 30,000
Language family: Mayan
 Quichean-Mamean
  Greater Quichean
   Quichean-Poqom
    Poqom
     Poqomam
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: variously:
poc – Central Poqomam
poa – Eestern
pou – Southern Poqomam

Poqomam is a Mayan language, closely related to Poqomchí. It is spoken by ca. 30,000 people in several small pockets in Guatemala, the largest of which is in the Alta Verapaz department but which extend to El Salvador.

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