Mam people
Catholic, Evangelical, Maya religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
|---|---|
| Ixil, Tektitek |
The Mam are an indigenous people in the western highlands of Guatemala and in south-western Mexico who speak the Mam language.
Most Mam (617,171) live in Guatemala, in the departments of
Quetzaltenango.[3][4] The Mam people in Mexico (23,632) live principally in the Soconusco region of Chiapas.[2]
In
pre-Columbian times the Mam were part of the Maya civilization; the pre-Columbian capital of the Mam kingdom was Zaculeu
.
Many Mam people live in and around the nearby modern city of
Maya language
family, the latter typically as their first language.
See also
- Mam (Maya mythology)
- Kayb'il B'alam
- Tecun Uman
- Takalik Abaj
References
- ^ "Resultados Censo 2018" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Guatemala. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ a b Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI) "Mames de Chiapas". CDI. 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- ALMG. Retrieved 2008-05-27. [dead link]
- ^ Ethnologue report for Guatemala Archived February 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- A traditional Mayan horse race for the Todos Santos Mam Holiday
- Two Crosses of Todos Santos An anthropological study of the village focusing on religious ritual
Ancestral background of Guatemalan citizens | |
| Guatemalan native groups (Maya and others) | |
| Former and extinct | |
| Guatemalan mestizo |
|
| Descendants of Europeans (white or Criollo) | |
| Descendants of Asians | |
| Afro-descendants | |
| Americas |
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| More than 100,000 people | ||
|---|---|---|
| 20,000 – 100,000 people | ||
| 1,000 – 20,000 people | ||
| Less than 1,000 people | ||
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