Poqomam language
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| Poqomam | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guatemala |
| Region | Alta Verapaz |
| Ethnicity | Poqomam |
Native speakers | unknown (49,000 cited 1990–1991)[1] |
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Mayan
| |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in |
Guatemala[2] |
| Regulated by | Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
poc |
| Glottolog |
poqo1253[3] |
Poqomam is a Mayan language, closely related to Poqomchi’. It is spoken by 50,000 or so people in several small pockets in Guatemala, the largest of which is in Jalapa department.[4]
Distribution
Poqomam is spoken in the following municipalities of Escuintla, Jalapa, and Guatemala departments (Variación Dialectal en Poqom, 2000).
References
- ↑ Poqomam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Congreso de la República de Guatemala. "Decreto Número 19-2003. Ley de Idiomas Nacionales". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Poqomam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ The official 2002 Guatemala census mentions a lower figure of 11,273 Poqomam speakers. See "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
External links
- Vocabulario de la lengua Pocomam de Mita, includes Pokonchi of San Cristobal Cajcaj
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