• Gefährdet

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 229,203

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  34 percent monolingual

MEHR ZU SPRACHBESTÄNDIGKEIT

One of the fastest growing indigenous languages in Mexico.

ORTE

Mexico

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

Central part of the state of Chiapas in Chamula and Zinacantán

• Gefährdet

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 260,000

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  Ethnologue distinguishes 6 languages where others have only one: Chamula Tzotzil [tzc] 130,000; Chenalhó Tzotzil [tze], 35,000; Huixtán Tzotzil [tzu], 50,000; San Andrés Larrainzar Tzotzil [tzs], 50,000; Venustiano Carranza Tzotzil [tzo] 4,230; and Zinacantán Tzotzil [tzz], 25,000. (1990 census)

DATUM DER INFORMATION

1990 (census)

ORTE

Mexico

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

Central Chiapas