Akatek people explained

Group:Akatek
Population:65,965[1]
Region1: Guatemala
Region2:Huehuetenango
Region3:Guatemala
Languages:Akatek, Spanish
Religions:Christianity (Majority Catholic, with Eastern[2] or Oriental Orthodox[3] and Evangelicalist minorities), Maya religion
Related:Maya people

The Akatek (Akateko) are a Maya people of Guatemala. Their indigenous Akatek language belongs to the Q'anjobalan branch of Mayan languages. Most Akatek live in San Miguel Acatán and San Rafael La Independencia, in the department of Huehuetenango.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Resultados Censo 2018 . Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Guatemala . 9 May 2020.
  2. Web site: News | Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE – International Orthodox Christian News . 2015-09-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151211145827/http://theorthodoxchurch.info/blog/news/2014/04/16/introducing-mayan-orthodoxy/ . 2015-12-11 .
  3. Web site: Syriac Orthodox Church Receives as Many as 800,000 New Converts in Central America | Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches . 2015-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130618065107/http://www.scooch.org/2013/05/syriac-orthodox-church-receives-as-many-as-800000-new-converts-in-central-america/ . 2013-06-18 . dead .

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