A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala

The Ch'orti' Maya

The Ch'orti' Maya today reside primarily in certain areas within the municipio of Chiquimula in southeastern Guatemala (Figure 1, shown above). Field research for this project was conducted in and around the town of Jocotán, Guatemala (Figure 2, shown below). While there are many Ch'orti' Maya living in northern Honduras in the vicinity of the city of Copán Ruinas, for all intents and purposes, they have abandoned the use of the Ch'orti' language. In terms of actual number of speakers, there are likely less than 15,000 people who are fluent speakers of Ch'orti', although there is considerable variation among the different statistics on this point. Most Ch'orti' speakers today in Guatemala are bilingual in Spanish and Ch'orti'.

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