Mam

Mam is a Mayan language spoken in Mexico and Guatemala. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Mam · 14.8°N 91.7°W

Mam is a Mayan language spoken by about half a million Mam people in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and the Mexican states of Campeche and Chiapas. Thousands more make up a Mam diaspora throughout the United States and Mexico, with notable populations living in Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. The most extensive Mam grammar is Nora C. England's A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language (1983), which is based on the San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán dialect of Huehuetenango Department.

From Wikipedia · Mam language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Kyaqiilqe winaq nchi itz'aj tuj kopib'il, juunx kychuwiinqal b'ix kyokleen, kyja'tzan tuj tb'aanal xiinv'il tu'n kyanq'iin tuj b'ank'u'j kyxool.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Mam

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	Sxal*
name	biyx*
eye	wucx*
ear	Skyin*
nose	qCan*
tooth	tbaq*
tongue	qaq*
hand	qobx*
blood	Ciky*
bone	baq*
skin	tzumalx*
knee	Cekx*
breast	miSx*
liver	toqkux*
water	aʼ
fire	qaq*
sun	qix*
star	Cew*
stone	abx*
mountain	Skanol*
tree	ce*
leaf	Saq*
night	qonikyan*
dog	Cyan*
fish	kyiS*
louse	squk*
one	xun*
two	kabe7*
I	ayine7*
you	aya*