Mam language

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Mam
Qyool Mam, Ta yol Mam
Native to	Guatemala, Mexico
Region	Chiapas and Campeche, Mexico Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, Guatemala;
Ethnicity	Mam
Native speakers	600,000 in Guatemala (2019 census)[1] 10,000 in Mexico (2020 census)[2]
Language family	Mayan Eastern Mayan Greater Mamean Mamean Mam
Dialects	Northern Mam Central Mam Soconusco Mam Western Mam Southern Mam
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Mexico  Guatemala
Regulated by	Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas Comunidad Lingüística Mam (COLIMAM)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mam
Glottolog	mamm1241
ELP	Mam
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Mam is a Mayan language spoken by about half a million Mam people in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and the Mexican states of Campeche and Chiapas. Thousands more make up a Mam diaspora throughout the United States and Mexico, with notable populations living in Oakland, California^[3][4] and Washington, D.C. The most extensive Mam grammar is Nora C. England's A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language (1983), which is based on the San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán dialect of Huehuetenango Department.