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Name: Itzaj
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Itza; Itz; Itzá; Itza'; Petén Itzá Maya; Yucatec Maya; Icaiche Maya; Maya
Spoken in: Guatemala
Number of speakers: 12 (1986 SIL). Ethnic population: 1,800 (2001) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 1094 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 12 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: itz
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Mayan
Parent Subgroup: Yukatekan/Mayan; Yukatekan; Yucatecan (yuca)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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