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Preferred term

knjAkatek language  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Akatek is a Mayan language spoken by the Akatek people primarily in the Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala in and around the municipalities of Concepción Huista, Nentón, San Miguel Acatán, San Rafael La Independencia and San Sebastián Coatán. A number of speakers also live in Chiapas, Mexico. It is a living language with 58,600 speakers as of 1998, of which 48,500 lived in Guatemala and the remaining in Mexico.

Entry terms

  • Kanjobal, Western
  • Western Kanjobal

ISO 639-3 code

  • knj

In other languages

  • Akateko jezik

    Croatian

  • Acateeks

    Dutch

  • Akateko

    French

  • Akatekisch

    German

  • Akatekų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Акатечки јазик

    Macedonian

  • Akatansk

    Norwegian

  • Lenga akateko

    Piedmontese

  • Língua acateca

    Portuguese

  • Акатекский язык

    Russian

  • Idioma acateco

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/knj

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