Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Ch'ol, Chol, Tumbalá, Ch'ol de Sabanilla
CLASSIFICATION		Mayan, Ch'olan-Tseltalan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		cti, ctu
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Ethnologue has 2 Chol languages, Tila Chol [cti] and Tumbalá Chol. Others recognize only one Chol language.

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
133,900
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Ethnologue has 2 Chol languages, Tila Chol [cti] and Tumbalá Chol. Others recognize only one Chol language. Tila Chol: 43,900 speakers (2000), Tumbalá Chol: 90,000 (1992).

	1993	La población hablante de lengua indígena en México						INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática)			INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) (1993) La población hablante de lengua indígena en México (XI Censo General de Población y Vivienda, 1990). Aguascalientes: INEGI.		128,240	1993	100000		At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	1991	Endangered Languages in Mexico	Endangered Languages	93-134	R. H. Robins and E. M. Uhlenbeck	New York: Berg				Beatriz Garza Cuarón and Yolanda Lastra	Beatriz Garza CuarÃ³n and Yolanda Lastra. 1991. "Endangered Languages in Mexico." In Endangered Languages, edited by R. H. Robins and E. M. Uhlenbeck. 93-134. New York: Berg.	HHOLD	96,776	1991	10000-99999		Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		Glottolog							http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.							17.49, -92.47
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	133,900	2000 for Tila, 1992 for Tumbalá	100000	Ethnologue has 2 Chol languages, Tila Chol [cti] and Tumbalá Chol. Others recognize only one Chol language. Tila Chol: 43,900 speakers (2000), Tumbalá Chol: 90,000 (1992).	At risk (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

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