Ixil

Language

Also known as Ixil language

Speakers: 92,000
Subclass of: Mamean
Script: Latin script
Indigenous to: Quiché Department

Overview

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Ixil (Ixhil) is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico and Guatemala. It is the primary language of the Ixil people, which mainly comprises the three towns of San Juan Cotzal, Santa María Nebaj, and San Gaspar Chajul in the Guatemalan highlands and numerous towns in the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo in southeast México. There is also an Ixil speaking migrant population in Guatemala City, Mexico City and the United States. Although there are slight differences in vocabulary in the dialects spoken by people in the three main Guatemalan Ixil towns, they are all mutually intelligible and should be considered dialects of a single language. According to historical linguistic studies, Ixil emerged as a separate language sometime around the year 500 AD.

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Works in this language

1 linked to Ixil in Wikidata

Quiché Departmentdepartment of Guatemala

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Linguistic typology: verb–subject–object
agglutinative language
Country: Guatemala
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1.unesco.org/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1791.html
2.“ScriptSource - Guatemala”scriptsource.org/country/GTRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Mexico
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1.unesco.org/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1371.html
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Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational
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Sources
1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/ixlRetrieved 2019-05-10
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UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable

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AIDb. (2026). Ixil (Q35528). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/ixil-Q35528