Ixchiguan
Encyclopedia
Ixchiguan is a municipality
in the San Marcos department
of Guatemala
. It was established as municipality on 9th of August 1933. The economy is based on temporary work force on the coffee plantations, respectively on a male migrating work force in Mexico.
Mam
, which is one of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, is spoken in Ixchiguan and in the neighborhood of the city. In two or three villages around the city, the indigenous people speak also K'iche'
, another language that belongs to the Mayan languages group.
During the 20th century, many people from Ixchiguan have migrated to Worthington
, Minnesota
, a city that is considered a center of Mam speakers in the United States
.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the San Marcos department
Departments of Guatemala
||Guatemala is divided into 22 departments :#Alta Verapaz#Baja Verapaz#Chimaltenango#Chiquimula#Petén#El Progreso#El Quiché#Escuintla#Guatemala#Huehuetenango#Izabal#Jalapa#Jutiapa#Quetzaltenango#Retalhuleu#Sacatepéquez...
of Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
. It was established as municipality on 9th of August 1933. The economy is based on temporary work force on the coffee plantations, respectively on a male migrating work force in Mexico.
Mam
Mam language
Mam is a Mayan language with almost 480,000 speakers as of 2002, spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas and the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and San Marcos....
, which is one of the Mayan languages of Guatemala, is spoken in Ixchiguan and in the neighborhood of the city. In two or three villages around the city, the indigenous people speak also K'iche'
K'iche' language
The K’iche’ language is a part of the Mayan language family. It is spoken by many K'iche' people in the central highlands of Guatemala. With close to a million speakers , it is the second-most widely spoken language in the country after Spanish...
, another language that belongs to the Mayan languages group.
During the 20th century, many people from Ixchiguan have migrated to Worthington
Worthington, Minnesota
Worthington is a city in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,764 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Nobles County.The city's site was first settled in the 1870s as Okabena Station on a line of the Chicago, St...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
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, a city that is considered a center of Mam speakers in the United States
United States
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.