Uspantek language

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Uspanteko
Spoken in: Guatemala 
Region: Quiché (department)
Total speakers: approx. 3,000
Language family: Mayan
 Quichean-Mamean
  Greater Quichean
   Uspanteko
    Uspanteko
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: myn
ISO 639-3: usp
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

The Uspanteko (Uspanteco, Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala, closely related to K'iche'. It is spoken in the Uspantán municipio, in the Department El Quiché. It is notable for being the native language of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (The others are Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil) it distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.

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