Ch'ol language
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| Chol Ch'ol |
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | North Central Chiapas | |
| Total speakers: | approx. 100,000 | |
| Language family: | Mayan Cholan-Tzeltalan Cholan Chol-Chontal Chol |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | myn | |
| ISO 639-3: | either: ctu – Chol, Tumbalá cti – Chol, Tila |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ch'ol (or Chol) is a member of the western branch of the Mayan language family used by the Ch'ol people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. There are two main dialects:
- Ch'ol of Tila spoken by 43,870 people of which 10,000 are monolinguals in the villages of Tila, Vicente Guerrero, Chivalito and Limar in Chiapas.
- Ch'ol of Tumbalá spoken by 90,000 people of which 30,000 are monolinguals in the villages of Tumbalá, Sabanilla, Misijá, Limar, Chivalita and Vicente Guerrero.
The Cholan branch of the Mayan languages is considered to be particularly conservative and Ch'ol along with its two closest relatives the Ch'orti' language of Guatemala and Honduras, and the Chontal Maya language of Tabasco are believed to be the modern languages that best reflect their relationship with the Classic Maya language.
Ch'ol-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEXPUJ-AM, broadcasting from Xpujil, Campeche.
[edit] References
- Aulie, H. Wilbur; and Evelyn W. de Aulie (eds.) [1978] (1998). Diccionario Ch'ol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla (PDF online reproduction), Emily F. Scharfe de Stairs (1996 re-editing), 2nd edition, electronic reproduction with March 2005 corrections, Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", No. 121, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. ISBN 968-31-0291-3. OCLC 42692322. (Spanish)
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