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Where is Mam spoken?

Mam is a Mayan language, spoken in Guatemala and Mexico. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Mam is spoken

Mam is spoken in 2 countries: Guatemala and Mexico. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Guatemala4.6%839,739
MexicoNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Mam has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Mam?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where Mam sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Mam as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Mayan
  2. Core Mayan
  3. Quichean-Mamean
  4. Greater Mamean
  5. Mamean
  6. Mam

Related languages

Other languages in the Mamean group:

More about Mam

Codes: ISO 639-3 mam, Glottolog mamm1241. Glottolog macroarea: North America.

Questions about Mam

Where is Mam spoken?

Mam is spoken in Guatemala and Mexico. Unicode CLDR puts it at 4.6% of the population of Guatemala, which is about 839,739 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Mam in?

Glottolog places Mam in the Mayan family, in the branch Core Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Mamean and Mamean.

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