Mam

Family Maya

Speakers aged 3 and over

11,369

2020 Census, INEGI

Risk grade

Very high

INALI 2012, on 2000 census figures. The highest-risk variant is shown.

Variants by grade

Very high 3
High 1
Medium 1
No immediate risk 0

Status in Glottolog

Threatened

glottolog 5.3 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18840967)

most endangered of 1 members with AES (1 in group): threatened=1

Digital resources

One indicator per source, measured in the snapshot of Oct 5, 2026. They are never blended into a single score.

This means the technical building blocks for language tools — translators, speech recognition, spell-checkers — not cultural content like books or music. What we count and where it comes from

Datasets

Hugging Face

datasets focused on the language

41 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source: huggingface
Recorded detail: repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups

Models

Hugging Face

models focused on the language

114 with any tag for the language, multilingual repositories included

Source: huggingface
Recorded detail: repos tagged for <=3 of the 68 groups

Speech corpus

Common Voice

Source does not cover this language

Source: common-voice scripted 27.0 (2026-09-11), spontaneous 5.0 (2026-09-11)
Recorded detail: none of 1 codes is a Common Voice locale

Treebanks

Universal Dependencies

released treebanks

Source: universal-dependencies 2.18 (2026-05-15)
Recorded detail: no treebank for any of 1 codes

Speech recognition

Omnilingual ASR

varieties supported

Source: omnilingual-asr lang_ids.py @ a7fb36017a (2025-11-10)
Recorded detail: 1 of 1 codes supported: mam_Latn

Identity

Glottocode: mamm1241
ISO 639-3: mam
Match to Glottolog: Exact: one Glottolog language

Glottolog languages in this group

mam Mam mamm1241

Variants 5

From INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with each variant's risk grade (INALI, 2012).

Variant	Autonym	Risk
Mam de la frontera	Qyool (de la frontera)	Medium
Mam de la Sierra	Qyool (de la Sierra)	Very high
Mam del norte	Qyool (del norte)	Very high
Mam del Soconusco	B’anax Mam · Qyool Mam	High
Mam del sur	Qyool (del sur)	Very high