Ch'orti' people
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approx. 51,000 |
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| Ch'orti', Spanish | ||||||||||||
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| Catholic, Evangelicalist, Maya religion |
The Ch'orti' people (alternatively, Ch'orti' Maya or Chorti) are one of the indigenous Maya peoples, who primarily reside in communities and towns of souteastern Guatemala and west-northern Honduras. Their indigenous language is also known as Ch'orti', and is in fluent use as a first language by approximately 15,000 people, although the majority of present-day Ch'orti' speakers are bilingual in Spanish as well.
[edit] Notes
- ^ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (2002). Retrieved on 2008-05-27.
- ^ Languages of Honduras. Ethnologue (1997). Retrieved on 2008-06-01.
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