Ixil language

Ixil language

Infobox Language
name=Ixil
nativename=Ixil
states=Guatemala
region=Quiché (department)
speakers=approx. 70,000 [Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), (2005) [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ixi Ethnologue report on Nebaj Ixil] , [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ixj Chajul Ixil] & [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ixl San Juan Cotzal Ixil] , accessed March 07, 2008.]
familycolor=American
fam1=Mayan
fam2=Quichean-Mamean
fam3=Greater Mamean
fam4=Ixilan
iso2=myn
lc1=ixi|ld1=Ixil, Nebaj|ll1=Ixil
lc2=ixj|ld2=Ixil, Chajul|ll2=Ixil
lc3=ixl|ld3=Ixil, San Juan Cotzal|ll3=Ixil

Ixil is a Mayan language. It is the primary language of the Ixil Triangle -- the three villages of San Juan Cotzal, Santa Maria Nebaj, and San Gaspar Chajul -- in the highlands of Guatemala. Possibly it is three different languages.

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