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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Guatemala > Tz’utujil, Eastern

Tz’utujil, Eastern

A language of Guatemala

ISO 639-3tzj
This ISO 639-3 code has undergone change through the merging of one or more retired code elements. For more information, see the code change history documentation.

Population  50,000 (1998 SIL), increasing. 17,000 monolinguals.
Region  Southern shore of Lake Atitlán, Sololá Department.
Language map  Guatemala, reference number 18
Alternate names   Santiago Atitlán Tzutujil, Tzutuhil, Tzutujil Oriental
Dialects  99% of the people understand and speak Eastern Tz’utujil.
Classification  Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean, Quichean, Tzutujil
Language use  Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Also use Spanish.
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%. 25% read, 5% write. Taught in primary schools. Radio programs. Grammar. NT: 1992.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ARNOLD, Dean E.; BUTLER, James H., authors. 1977. "La clasificación tzutujil del maíz en San Pedro La Laguna."

ARNOLD, Dean E.; BUTLER, James H., authors. 1977. "Tzutujil maize classification in San Pedro La Laguna."

ARNOLD, Dean E.; NEUENSWANDER, Helen L., editors. 1977. Cognitive studies of southern Mesoamerica.

ARNOLD, Dean E.; NEUENSWANDER, Helen L., editors. 1977. Estudios cognitivos del sur de Mesoamérica.

BUTLER, James H.; BUTLER, Judy G., authors. 1971. "Tzutujil."  Available online

BUTLER, James H.; BUTLER, Judy G., authors. 1972. "Tzutujil."

BUTLER, James H.; BUTLER, Judy G., authors. 1977. "Alfabeto tzutujil."

BUTLER, James H.; BUTLER, Judy G., authors. 1977. Tzutujil verbs.

BUTLER, James H.; BUTLER, Judy G., authors. 1990. Verbos Tzutujiles.

BUTLER, James H.; FLEMING, Ilah, authors. 1976. "Tzutujil texts."

BUTLER, James H.; PECK, Charles W., authors. 1980. "The uses of passive, antipassive, and absolute verbs in Tzutujil of San Pedro La Laguna."

BUTLER, James H.; PIKE, Evelyn G., authors. 1979. "Transitivity and voice in Tzutujil clause roots."

SHAW, Mary, editor. 1971. According to our ancestors: Folk texts from Guatemala and Honduras.  Available online

SHAW, Mary, editor. 1972. Según nuestros antepasados: Textos folklóricos de Guatemala y Honduras.

Vernacular Publications

Abraham Lincoln. 1970.

Guía para el uso de la cartilla tzutujil. 1979.

Ja escusada. 1970.

Ja nban tre ja rchomixic chenoj xin ticoʼm. 1970.

Ja re ojer tak winak e aj América. 1970.

Ja rwachʼulew in juleʼ chic planeta. 1970.

Ja tijoj yaʼ. 1969.

Ja wekol bak. 1973.

Ja winakarsax jeʼe. 1970.

Ja yaʼ ja utz ntiji. 1970.

Ja yabilal nqueyaʼ ja jan. 1969.

Kasiqʼuij katzobal. 1971.

Kasiqʼuij katzobal. 1979.

Katzʼibaj katzobal. 1971.

Kotzijon jalal tre América. 1970.

Tasiqʼuij ja chiste pa katzobal. 1969.

Tatijoj awiʼ tre ja geometría. 1970.

Tawotakij nak rbanic ja etbal in pajbal jeʼe. 1970.

Utz quiqʼuitzixic tabanaʼ ja tak awalcʼwal. 1969.