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Uspanteko
Spoken in	Guatemala
Region	Quiché (department)
Total speakers	approx. 3,000
Language family	Mayan Quichean-Mamean Greater Quichean Uspanteko; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	myn
ISO 639-3	usp
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The Uspanteko (Uspanteco, Uspanteko, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to K'iche'. It is spoken in the Uspantán and Playa Grande Ixcán [1] municipios, in the Department El Quiché.^[1]^[2]^[3] It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (the others being Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil). It distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.