Endangered Languages Project - Tz'utujil

Tz'utujil

^{[aka Tzutuhil, Tzutujil,]}

Classification: Mayan

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Tzutuhil, Tzutujil
CLASSIFICATION		Mayan, K'ichean
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		tzj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “Atlas Lingüístico de Guatemala” . Richards, Michael (2003) Editorial Serviprensa, Guatemala

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
47,669
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
47,669 personas para el año 2001, según un algoritmo desarrollado con base en las proyecciones del Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

DATE OF INFO: 2001

PLACES: Guatemala

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Sololá: San Juan la Laguna, San Lucas Tolimán, San Pablo la Laguna, San Pedro la Laguna, Santa María Visitación,
Santiago Atitlán.
Suchitepéquez: Chicacao y San Miguel Panán.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
83,800
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Ethnologue (2009) distinguished 2 Tz'utujil languages:
Eastern Tz'utujil [tzj] 50,000 (1998).
Western Tzutujil [tzt]: 33,800 (1990).

Ethnologue (2013) has only one, [tzj]: 83,800 (1990–1998 SIL), increasing. 17,000 monolinguals (total number, unchanged).

DATE OF INFO: 1998, 1990

PLACES: Guatemala;

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Sololá Department, Lake Atitlán, south and southwest shore.

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
63,237
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
50,000
Native speakers worldwide

Ethnic population
78,498
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
39,341 women; 39,157 men. Data for within Guatemala. (Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE, Guatemala, 2002 census).

DATE OF INFO: 2002

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
47,669
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2005

PLACES: Guatemala

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Spoken in a 350 square kilometer area.

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

14.6394, -91.2301

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing