tseltal del occidente

Language variantFamily Maya

Risk grade
No immediate risk

INALI 2012, on the 2000 census

Rank among the 364 variants (1 = highest risk)
356
Group
Glottocode
tzel1254Its group's; the variant has none of its own.

Autonym

As recorded in INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with its phonetic transcription.

AutonymTranscription (IPA)Transcription status
bats’il k’op (del occidente)[bat͡sʔil kʔop]Extracted from the catalog
How to read the transcription
[…]Extracted from the catalog
[…]*Corrected by hand from the page
?In review: not published yet

Transcriptions set in Charis SIL, © SIL International, under the SIL Open Font License

Risk grade

INALI (2012), calculated from the 2000 census. The figures in this section are from that census, not from 2020.

Speakers
112,753
Speakers in localities where 30% or more speak it
95,965
Localities
612
Localities where 30% or more speak it
294
Proportion of speakers, as INALI publishes it
95.92%
Proportion of child speakers aged 5 to 14
36.11%
Name in the risk publication
tseltal del occidente
How it was linked to the catalog
Same name in both publications

Where it is spoken

Localities the 2008 catalog assigns to this variant, by state.

StateMunicipalitiesLocalities
Chiapas31681
Total31681

INALI, Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008)