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Mam pic
Mam pic Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers as of 2002, spoken in the Mexicanstate of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and San Marcos.
Linguists distinguish between three major divisions of the language, based somewhat on the geographical area where they are spoken: Northern Mam in Huehuetenango, Southern Mam inQuetzaltenango and Central Mam in San Marcos. Because of a lack of literacy skills and interaction, spurred by the country's mountainous terrain, the language can vary widely from village to village, even though the villages may be separated by just a few miles. Nonetheless, all native speakers of the Mam language are typically able to understand one another, though perhaps with some difficulty.[citation needed]
Mam is closely related to the Tektitek language, and the two languages together form the Mamean sub-branch, which together with the Ixilean languages, Awakatek and Ixil, form the Greater-Mamean sub-branch, which again, together with the Greater-Quichean languages, ten Mayan languages, including K'iche', form the branch Quichean–Mamean.
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