Uspantek language

Uspantek language

Infobox Language
name=Uspanteko
states=Guatemala
region=Quiché (department)
speakers=approx. 3,000
familycolor=American
fam1=Mayan
fam2=Quichean-Mamean
fam3=Greater Quichean
fam4=Uspanteko
iso2=myn
iso3=usp

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 [http://www.inforpressca.com/playagrandeixcan/] "municipios", in the Department El Quiché. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (The others are Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil) it distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.


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