Mopan language
Mayan language spoken in Belize and Guatemala / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mopan (or Mopan Maya) is a language that belongs to the Yucatecan branch of the Mayan languages. It is spoken by the Mopan people who live in the Petén Department of Guatemala and in the Maya Mountains region of Belize. There are between three and four thousand Mopan speakers in Guatemala and six to eight thousand in Belize.[2]
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Mopan | |
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Mopán, Mopan Maya | |
Native to | Belize, Guatemala |
Ethnicity | Mopan |
Native speakers | 13,000 (2014–2019)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mop |
Glottolog | mopa1243 |
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The other Yucatecan languages are Yucatec, Lacandon, and Itzaʼ. Mopan began to diverge from the other Yucatecan languages at least one thousand years ago.[2][3]