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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Mam-Sprache</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><table class="infobox wikitable float-right toptextcells" style="width:330px; font-size:95%; margin-top:0;" summary="Infobox Sprache">
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<th colspan="3" style="background:#A9BEC7; color:#202122; font-size: 1.3em;">Qyol mam
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<p>Gesprochen in
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<td colspan="2"><a href="Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5">Sprecher
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<td colspan="2">600.000
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5">Linguistische<br><a href="Sprachfamilie" title="Sprachfamilie">Klassifikation</a>
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<ul><li><a href="Maya-Sprachen" title="Maya-Sprachen">Maya-Sprachen</a>
<ul><li>Quiché-Mam-Sprachen
<ul><li>Mam-Sprachen</li></ul></li></ul>
<dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><div style="font-weight:bold;">Mam</div></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul>
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<th colspan="3" style="background:#A9BEC7; color:#202122;">Sprachcodes
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5"><a href="ISO_639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639</a>-1
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<td colspan="2">–
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5"><a href="ISO_639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639</a>-2
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<td colspan="2">myn (Maya-Sprachen)
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<td class="hintergrundfarbe5"><a href="ISO_639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639</a>-3
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<td colspan="2">mam
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<p>Die <b>Mam-Sprache</b> <i>(Qyol mam)</i> ist die Sprache des indigenen Volks der Mam in <a href="Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> und mit etwa einer halben Million Sprechern eine der meistgesprochenen <a href="Maya-Sprachen" title="Maya-Sprachen">Maya-Sprachen</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Verbreitung">Verbreitung</h2></div>
<p>Das Mam-Sprachgebiet umfasst weite Teile des Hochlands von Guatemala, insbesondere in den Departements <a href="Departamento_Huehuetenango" title="Departamento Huehuetenango">Huehuetenango</a>, <a href="Departamento_Quetzaltenango" title="Departamento Quetzaltenango">Quetzaltenango</a> und <a href="Departamento_San_Marcos" title="Departamento San Marcos">San Marcos</a> sowie im <a href="Mexiko" title="Mexiko">mexikanischen</a> Bundesstaat <a href="Chiapas" title="Chiapas">Chiapas</a>. Abgesehen von einigen abgelegenen Gegenden beherrschen die meisten Mam-Sprecher bis zu einem gewissen Grad auch <a href="Spanische_Sprache" title="Spanische Sprache">Spanisch</a>.
</p><p>Bei der Volkszählung von 2002 gaben 477.717 (4,6 %) Mam als Muttersprache an;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 617.171 (5,5 %) bezeichneten sich als Mam.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bei der Volkszählung von 2018 in Guatemala gaben 590.641 Personen ab 4 Jahren (4,35 %) Mam als Muttersprache an.<sup id="cite_ref-census2018_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census2018-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mam-Dialekte">Mam-Dialekte</h2></div>
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<td>Nord-Mam
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<td><a href="Huehuetenango_(Departamento)" class="mw-redirect" title="Huehuetenango (Departamento)">Huehuetenango</a>
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<td>ca. 200.000 in Guatemala<br> ca. 1.000 in Mexiko
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<td>Süd-Mam
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<td><a href="Quetzaltenango_(Departamento)" class="mw-redirect" title="Quetzaltenango (Departamento)">Quetzaltenango</a>
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<td>ca. 125.000 in Guatemala
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<td>Zentral-Mam
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<td><a href="San_Marcos_(Departamento)" class="mw-redirect" title="San Marcos (Departamento)">San Marcos</a>
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<td>ca. 100.000 in Guatemala
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<td>Tajumulco-Mam
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<td>San Marcos
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<td>ca. 35.000 in Guatemala
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<td>Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam
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<td>Huehuetenango
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<td>ca. 50.000 in Guatemala<br> ca. 10.000 in <a href="Mexiko" title="Mexiko">Mexiko</a>
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<td>Tacaneco (Takanekisch)
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<td>San Marcos (ländliche Gebiete westlich von Tacaná)
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<td>ca. 20.000 in Guatemala<br> ca. 1.000 in Mexiko
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<p><a href="SIL_International" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL International">SIL International</a> führte bis vor kurzem die regionalen Varianten als eigene Sprachen:
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<ul><li>Nord-Mam [mam]</li>
<li>Süd-Mam [mms]</li>
<li>Zentral-Mam [mvc]</li>
<li>Tajumulco-Mam [mpf]</li>
<li>Todos Santos Cuchumatán Mam [mvj]</li>
<li>Takanekisch (Tacaneco) [mtz]<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>Mit der 16. Ausgabe des <a href="Ethnologue" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnologue">Ethnologue</a> wurden diese Codes jedoch mit dem Code [mam] (Mam)<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> verschmolzen.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Juventino de Jesús Pérez Alonzo: <i>Pujb'il Yol Mam: Diccionario Bilingüe Estándar Mam-Español.</i> 1. Auflage. OKMA u. a., Antigua 2007, ISBN 978-99922-53-40-3.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.almg.org.gt/portal/index.php?content-type=rss&id=6&newsid=46&new=ALFABETO+ORTOGRAFICO+DEL+IDIOMA+MAM">Alfabeto Ortográfico del Idioma Mam según la ALMG</a> (PDF)</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110928043749/http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var27.html"><i>XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Idioma o lengua en que aprendió a hablar.</i></a> Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2002, archiviert vom <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r250917974">
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110222054745/http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html"><i>XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico.</i></a> Instituto Nacional de Estadística, 2002, archiviert vom <span class="dewiki-iconexternal"><a class="external text" href="https://redirecter.toolforge.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ine.gob.gt%2FNesstar%2FCenso2002%2Fsurvey0%2FdataSet%2FdataFiles%2FdataFile1%2Fvar26.html">Original</a></span> am <span style="white-space:nowrap;">22. Februar 2011</span><span>;</span><span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 22. Dezember 2009</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AMam-Sprache&rft.title=XI+Censo+Nacional+de+Poblaci%C3%B3n+y+VI+de+Habitaci%C3%B3n+%28Censo+2002%29+-+Pertenencia+de+grupo+%C3%A9tnico&rft.description=XI+Censo+Nacional+de+Poblaci%C3%B3n+y+VI+de+Habitaci%C3%B3n+%28Censo+2002%29+-+Pertenencia+de+grupo+%C3%A9tnico&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20110222054745%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ine.gob.gt%2FNesstar%2FCenso2002%2Fsurvey0%2FdataSet%2FdataFiles%2FdataFile1%2Fvar26.html&rft.publisher=Instituto+Nacional+de+Estad%C3%ADstica&rft.date=2002&rft.source=http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-census2018-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-census2018_3-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://censo2018.ine.gob.gt/explorador">Resultados del Censo 2018</a>, abgerufen am 26. Dezember 2025 (spanisch)</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mtz"><i>Tacanec – A language of Guatemala</i>.</a> Ethnologue.com</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mam"><i>Mam – A language of Guatemala</i>.</a> Ethnologue.com</span>
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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2008-055"><i>Change request documentation for: 2008-055</i>.</a> <a href="SIL_International" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL International">SIL International</a></span>
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