Qʼanjobalan languages

The Qʼanjobalan a.k.a. Kanjobalan–Chujean languages are a branch of the Mayan family of Guatemala.

Qʼanjobalan
Kanjobalan–Chujean
Geographic
distribution
Mesoamerica
Linguistic classificationMayan
  • Western
    (Qʼanjobalan–Chʼolan)
    • Qʼanjobalan
Subdivisions
  • Qʼanjobalan proper
  • Chujean
Glottologkanj1261[1]

Languages

  • Qʼanjobʼal (Kanjobalan) proper
  • Chujean: Chuj (61,630 speakers), Tojolabal (51,733 speakers)

See Mayan languages#Qʼanjobalan for details.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kanjobalan–Chujean". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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