Sipakapa language

Sipakapense
Sipacapeño
Native to Guatemala
Region Sipacapa
Ethnicity 12,000 Sipakapense (2000)[1]
Native speakers
 8,000 (2000)[1]
Mayan
Official status
Regulated by ALMG
Language codes
ISO 639-3 qum
Glottolog sipa1247[2]

Sipakapense is a Mayan language, closely related to K'iche'. It is spoken natively within indigenous Sipakapense communities, primarily based in the Guatemalan municipality of Sipacapa, department of San Marcos.[3][4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Sipakapense at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sipacapense". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr., ed. (2005). "Sipakapense". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (versión en linea). Barbara F. Grimes (ed. contribuente) (15 ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097.
  4. ↑ "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico". Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2002. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  5. ↑ "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. Retrieved 2009-06-28.


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