Editing Mam language (section)

{{Short description|Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Mexico}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Mam
| nativename       = {{lang|mam|Qyool Mam, Ta yol Mam}}
| states           = [[Guatemala]], [[Mexico]]
| region           = [[Chiapas]] and [[Campeche]], [[Mexico]]<br/>[[Quetzaltenango Department|Quetzaltenango]], [[Huehuetenango Department|Huehuetenango]], [[San Marcos Department|San Marcos]], and [[Retalhuleu Department|Retalhuleu]], [[Guatemala]];
| ethnicity        = [[Mam people|Mam]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|602,400|2}} in Guatemala
| date             = 2019 census
| ref              = e24
| speakers2        = {{sigfig|11369|1}} in Mexico (2020 census)<ref name=inegi2020>[http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/hipertexto/todas_lenguas.htm Lenguas indígenas y hablantes de 3 años y más, 2020] INEGI. Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020.</ref>
| familycolor      = Mayan
| fam1             = [[Mayan languages|Mayan]]
| fam2             = Eastern Mayan
| fam3             = [[Mamean languages|Greater Mamean]]
| fam4             = Mamean
| minority         = {{flag|Mexico}}<br/>{{flag|Guatemala}}
| iso3             = mam
| glotto           = mamm1241
| glottorefname    = Mam
| notice           = IPA
| script           = Latin
| agency           = [[Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas]]<br/>
Comunidad Lingüística Mam (COLIMAM)
| dia1             = Northern Mam
| dia2             = Central Mam
| dia3             = [[Soconusco]] Mam
| dia4             = Western Mam
| dia5             = Southern Mam
}}

'''Mam''' is a [[Mayan languages|Mayan language]] spoken by about half a million [[Mam people]] in the [[Departments of Guatemala|Guatemalan departments]] of [[Quetzaltenango Department|Quetzaltenango]], [[Huehuetenango Department|Huehuetenango]], [[San Marcos Department|San Marcos]], and [[Retalhuleu Department|Retalhuleu]], and the [[Mexico|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]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-mayan-indigenous-languages-20160725-snap-story.html|title=Ancient Mayan languages are creating problems for today's immigration courts|last=Carcamo|first=Cindy|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=9 August 2016 |access-date=2018-11-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Growth of Oakland's Guatemalan community sparks interest in Mam|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-08-19/growth-oakland-s-guatemalan-community-sparks-interest-mam|work=PRI's The World|publisher=PRI|author=Farida Jhabvala Romero|date=August 19, 2019|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref> 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]].