Mayan · ISO 639-3 caa
Chortí Language
Chortí is a Mayan language spoken by about 30,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Chortí is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Chortí
Language family
- Mayan
- Core Mayan
- Western Mayan
- Cholan-Tzeltalan
- Cholan
- Chorti-Cholti
- Chortí
Writing system
Latin script
About the Chortí language
Chortí is spoken by about 30,000 people, which makes it the 539th most spoken language in the world — just behind Mankanya (33,000) and ahead of Hawaiian (30,000). It belongs to the Mayan language family and, more precisely, to the Chorti-Cholti group within the Western Mayan branch.
Where is Chortí spoken?
Chortí is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Guatemala (23,731).
Chortí is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Guatemala.
Writing system and status
Chortí is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as vulnerable, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 caa.
Frequently asked questions about Chortí
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.