Mam is a Mayan language spoken by well over half a million people, chiefly in the western highlands of Guatemala, in the departments of Huehuetenango, San Marcos and Quetzaltenango, and by smaller communities across the border in Chiapas, Mexico. It is one of the four largest Mayan languages of Guatemala, alongside K'iche', Q'eqchi' and Kaqchikel, though these are separate languages rather than dialects of one another. Mam itself varies considerably from town to town, and speakers from distant municipalities can find each other hard to follow. It is written in the Latin alphabet using the official orthography adopted for Guatemala's Mayan languages. Migration has carried Mam northwards, and it is now among the more frequently encountered indigenous American languages in United States immigration settings.
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