Sakapultek language

Sakapultek
Sacapulteco
Native to	Guatemala
Region	El Quiché
Ethnicity	Sakapultek
Native speakers	15,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Mayan Quichean–Mamean Greater Quichean Sakapultek
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Guatemala[2]
Regulated by	Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (ALMG)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	quv
Glottolog	saca1238[3]

Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a Mayan language very closely related to K'iche' (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Sacapulas, El Quiché department and in Guatemala City.^[4][5]

References

1. Sakapultek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Congreso de la República de Guatemala. "Decreto Número 19-2003. Ley de Idiomas Nacionales". Retrieved 2009-06-22.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sacapulteco". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Lewis, M. Paul (ed.) (2009). "Sakapulteko". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (online version) (16 ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. OCLC 60338097. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
5. The official 2002 census mentions a lower figure of 6.973 Sakapulteko speakers. See "XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar". Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Retrieved 2009-12-15.