tsotsil de los Altos

Language variantFamily Maya

Risk grade
No immediate risk

INALI 2012, on the 2000 census

Rank among the 364 variants (1 = highest risk)
315
Group
Glottocode
tzot1259Its 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’i k’op (de los Altos)[bat͡sʔi 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
12,909
Speakers in localities where 30% or more speak it
12,562
Localities
74
Localities where 30% or more speak it
61
Proportion of speakers, as INALI publishes it
87.11%
Proportion of child speakers aged 5 to 14
35.38%
Name in the risk publication
tsotsil de los Altos
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
Chiapas174
Total174

INALI, Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008)