Sipakapa language

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

Sipakapense
Sipacapeño
Native toSipacapa, San Marcos, Guatemala
RegionSipacapa
Ethnicity12,000 Sipakapense (2000)[1]
Native speakers
8,000 (2000)[1]
Mayan
Official status
Regulated byAcademia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala
Language codes
ISO 639-3qum
Glottologsipa1247[2]

References
  1. Sipakapense at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sipacapense". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Sipakapense". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (versión en linea)|format= requires |url= (help). 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. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
  5. "Comunidad Lingüística Sipakapense". ALMG. Retrieved 2009-06-28.


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