Sakapultek or Sacapulteco is a
Mayan language
Mayan most commonly refers to:
* Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
* Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America
* Mayan languages, language family spoken ...
very closely related to
Kʼicheʼ (Quiché). It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people in
Sacapulas
Sacapulas is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché.
History
Pre Hispanic era
Worried about the defection of the aj K’ub’ul family chief -who had taken his family away in order to look for fertile and, above ...
,
El Quiché
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
department and in
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nest ...
.
[The official 2002 census mentions a lower figure of 6.973 Sakapulteko speakers. See ]
References
External links
The John William Dubois Collection Of Sacapultec Sound Recordingsat the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Agglutinative languages
Mayan languages
Indigenous languages of Central America
Mesoamerican languages
Languages of Guatemala
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