Mayan · ISO 639-3 ixl
Ixil Language
Ixil is a Mayan language spoken by about 140,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Ixil is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Ixil
Language family
- Mayan
- Core Mayan
- Quichean-Mamean
- Greater Mamean
- Ixilan
- Ixil
Writing system
Latin script
Related languages
About the Ixil language
Ixil is spoken by about 140,000 people, which makes it the 523rd most spoken language in the world — just behind Lak (154,820) and ahead of Gilbertese (116,280). It belongs to the Mayan language family and, more precisely, to the Ixilan group within the Quichean-Mamean branch.
Where is Ixil spoken?
Ixil is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Guatemala (162,471).
Ixil is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Guatemala.
Writing system and status
Ixil is written in the Latin script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are K'iche', Kaqchikel, Sacapulteco and Uspanteco.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ixl.
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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.