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Chol
Ch'ol
Spoken in: Mexico 
Region: North Central Chiapas
Total speakers: approx. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Chiapas is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country 100,000
Language family: Mayan
 Cholan-Tzeltalan
  Cholan
   Chol-Chontal
    Chol
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: myn
ISO 639-3: either:
ctu – Chol, Tumbalá
cti – Chol, Tila

Ch'ol (or Chol) is a member of the western branch of the Mayan language family used by the Ch'ol people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Ch'ol are an indigenous people of southeastern Mexico, mainly located in the northern Chiapas highlands in the state of Chiapas, Mexico Chiapas is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country There are two main dialects:

The Cholan branch of the Mayan languages is considered to be particularly conservative and Ch'ol along with its two closest relatives the Ch'orti' language of Guatemala and Honduras, and the Chontal Maya language of Tabasco are believed to be the modern languages that best reflect their relationship with the Classic Maya language. The Ch'orti' language (sometimes also Chorti) is a Mayan language, spoken by the indigenous Maya people who are also known as the Ch'orti' Guatemala (República de Guatemala) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west the Pacific Ocean to the southwest Honduras in Spanish, República de Honduras) is a democratic republic in Central America. Yoko ochoco, also known as Chontal Maya, and Acalan, is a Maya language of the Cholan family spoken by the Chontal Maya Tabasco is a state in Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the west Chiapas to the south and Campeche to the The Classic Maya language is the oldest historically-attested member of the Mayan language family.

Ch'ol-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEXPUJ-AM, broadcasting from Xpujil, Campeche. The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples ( Spanish: Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas, CDI is a decentralized XEXPUJ-AM ( La Voz del Corazón de la Selva – "The Voice of the Heart of the Rain Forest" is an indigenous Community radio station Xpujil is a town in the Mexican state of Campeche. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Calakmul. Campeche is the name of both a state in Mexico and its capital city

References

Aulie, H. Wilbur; and Evelyn W. de Aulie (eds. ) [1978] (1998). Diccionario Ch'ol de Tumbalá, Chiapas, con variaciones dialectales de Tila y Sabanilla (PDF online reproduction), Emily F. Scharfe de Stairs (1996 re-editing), 2nd edition, electronic reproduction with March 2005 corrections, Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves", No. 121, Coyoacán, D. F. : Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. ISBN 968-31-0291-3. OCLC 42692322. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose   (Spanish)

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