• Vulnérable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 229,203

  Locuteurs natifs dans le monde
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  34 percent monolingual

MORE ON VITALITY

One of the fastest growing indigenous languages in Mexico.

PLACES

Mexico

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Central part of the state of Chiapas in Chamula and Zinacantán

• Vulnérable

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 260,000

  Locuteurs natifs dans le monde
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  Ethnologue distinguishes 6 languages where others have only one: Chamula Tzotzil [tzc] 130,000; Chenalhó Tzotzil [tze], 35,000; Huixtán Tzotzil [tzu], 50,000; San Andrés Larrainzar Tzotzil [tzs], 50,000; Venustiano Carranza Tzotzil [tzo] 4,230; and Zinacantán Tzotzil [tzz], 25,000. (1990 census)

DATE OF INFO

1990 (census)

PLACES

Mexico

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Central Chiapas