Mayan family
Ch'orti'
c. 1000 CE – today Living
Ch'orti' (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Mayan language. Lineage: Proto-Mayan → Classic Maya → Ch'orti'.
See Ch'orti' on the interactive map- Speakers
- 30K (30,000)
- ISO 639-3
- caa
- Glottocode
- chor1273
Ch'olan branch, spoken in eastern Guatemala near Copán. Regarded as the closest living descendant of the language of the Classic Maya inscriptions.
Lineage
- Proto-Mayanc. 2,200 BCE – 1,000 BCE
- Classic Mayac. 300 BCE – 900 CE
- Ch'orti'c. 1000 CE – today