Ch’orti’ language
Spoken in
- Mayan languages Chol - Tzeltal, Tzotzil Chol languages
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The Chortí language, also Ch'orti ' is the language of the indigenous people of Chortí in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Classification
Chortí one of the Mayan languages , and is most closely related to the Chol language in Chiapas, Mexico. An early form of Chortí or output form of Chol and Chortí was used by the ancient inhabitants of Copan and is the language of the local inscriptions. The colonial period in a vocabulary of Fray Francisco Morán ( 1695 ) narrated Ch'oltí can be seen as an intermediate stage in the development of the present Ch'orti.
Dissemination
The Chortí language is spoken in the municipios Jocotán and Camotán in the Guatemalan department of Chiquimula. There are still a few speakers in the department of Copán in western Honduras. Likewise, it was spoken in the north of El Salvador, but there is already extinct.
At the 2002 census in Guatemala gave 11,734 people (0.1%) Ch'orti ' as mother tongue; Many more people, namely 46 833 (0.4%) described themselves as Ch'orti '. SIL International is 30,000, the number of speakers for Ch'orti ' [ caa ] in 2000, significantly higher than the official census of.