Jakaltek language
Spoken in
- Mayan languages West Maya Q'anjob'alan - Chujean Q'anjob'alan Poptí '
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The Poptí language ( Popti '), Jakaltekisch ( Jacalteco ) or Abxubal is a Mayan language, which is spoken by about 100,000 indigenous ethnic group of Poptí in Guatemala and Mexico.
Classification
Poptí belongs together with the languages Kanjobal, Chuj, Acateco and Tojolabal to Q'anjob'al - language tribe of Mayan languages. It is divided into a western and an eastern variant, designated by SIL International as the two languages.
Dissemination
Poptí is mainly spoken in the municipios Jacaltenango and Concepción in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango Huista and in adjacent areas of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
At the 2002 census in Guatemala gave 34,038 people (0.3%) Popti ' as mother tongue; 47 024 persons ( 0.4%) described themselves as Popti '. These figures are far below other estimates, such as by Tzian (1994 ), which indicates 83 814 Speakers in Guatemala. According to SIL International is the western Jacalteco of 10,300 people in Mexico (1991 ) - mostly refugees from Guatemala - and 77,700 in Guatemala ( 1998), discussed the eastern Jacalteco of 11,000 (1998) in Guatemala. According to the census of 2010 602 people were talking about 3 years and permanently resident in Mexico Jakaltekisch.