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Awakatek
Qa'yol
Spoken in	Guatemala
Region	Huehuetenango
Total speakers	18,000 (1998)
Language family	Mayan Quichean-Mamean Greater Mamean Ixilean Awakatek; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	myn
ISO 639-3	agu
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Awakatek is a Mayan language spoken in primarily Huehuetenango, Guatemala in and around Aguacatán.^[2] It is a living language with some 18,000 speakers.^[1]

Awakatek is closely related to Ixil and the two languages together form the sub-branch Ixilean, which together with the Mamean languages, Mam and Tektitek, form a sub-branch Greater-Mamean, which again, together with the Greater-Quichean languages, ten Mayan languages, including K'iche', form the branch Quichean-Mamean.

The Awakatek people themselves refer to their language as qa'yol, literally meaning our word.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Ethnologue
^ Cabral, Ernesto Díaz Couder (2001). Culturas e interculturalidad en Guatemala. http://www.relint.deusto.es/ALFA_EPI/documentos/Culturas%20e%20interculturalidad%20en%20Guatemala%5B1%5D.16-5-02.doc.

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[1] Cabral, Ernesto Díaz Couder (2001). Culturas e interculturalidad en Guatemala. http://www.relint.deusto.es/ALFA_EPI/documentos/Culturas%20e%20interculturalidad%20en%20Guatemala%5B1%5D.16-5-02.doc.

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