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Where is Popti' spoken?

Popti' is a Mayan language, spoken in Guatemala and Mexico. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Popti' is spoken

Popti' is spoken in 2 countries: Guatemala and Mexico. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Guatemala0.3%56,591
MexicoNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Popti' has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Popti'?

Wikidata gives about 33,000 first-language speakers (ethnologue.com, 2019). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Popti' sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Popti' as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Mayan
  2. Core Mayan
  3. Western Mayan
  4. Kanjobalan-Chujean
  5. Kanjobalan
  6. Kanjobal-Jacaltec
  7. Popti'

Related languages

Other languages in the Kanjobal-Jacaltec group:

More about Popti'

Codes: ISO 639-3 jac, Glottolog popt1235. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Popti'

Where is Popti' spoken?

Popti' is spoken in Guatemala and Mexico. Unicode CLDR puts it at 0.3% of the population of Guatemala, which is about 56,591 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Popti'?

Wikidata gives about 33,000 first-language speakers (ethnologue.com, 2019). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Popti' in?

Glottolog places Popti' in the Mayan family, in the branch Core Mayan, Western Mayan, Kanjobalan-Chujean, Kanjobalan and Kanjobal-Jacaltec.

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