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that speak ethno-languages occur in central Quintana

Roo (municipality of Felipe Carrillo Puerto) where Maya

Additional information is needed regarding:

is the dominant ethno-language;20 in central Belize

with Creole and Garifuna speakers; in southern Belize

· The use of ethno-languages in Honduras;

(Toledo District) as a result of Maya K'etchi, Maya

Mopan and Creole speakers;21 and in the municipality

· Changes in the use of traditional socio-cultural

of Livingston in Guatemala as a result of the presence

practices (e.g., dance, ethnobotany, oral history);

of Maya and Garifuna speakers.22 The southern

municipalities of the northern Honduran coast also

· The loss of cultural practices that include traditional

display a high percentage of individuals that identify

resource uses and management practices.

themselves with an indigenous or traditional group

with the preponderance of Miskito and Garifuna

ethnicities.23

Percent and Numbers of the Population that Speak Ethno-Languages per Municipality

Country

State/ Department/

Municipality/ District

Percentage that

Numbers that speak

District1

speak ethno-

an ethno-language

language

Belize

65.0

41,017

Corozal

12.1

3,911

Belize

Stann Creek

62.3

15,238

Toledo

73.5

16,981

Guatemala

Izabal

Livingston

49.1

23,857

Puerto Barrios

4.4

3,759

Mexico

Quintana Roo

Benito Juarez

11.9

50,936

Cozumel

12.8

8,062

Felipe Carrillo Puerto

72.3

40,996

Isla Mujeres

13.4

1,300

Othon P. Blanco

11.4

21,940

Solidaridad

21.7

19,915

Atlantida

La Ceiba

8.7

11,107

Honduras2

Tela

8.7

6,762

Colon

Santa Fe

51.3

2,873

Santa Rosa de Aguan

39.5

1,497

Gracias a Dios

Brus Laguna

91.3

8,647

Puerto Lempira

82.9

19,332

Islas de la Bahia

Jose Santos Guardiola

49.6

3,774

Roatan

4,538

Data Source20, 21, 22, 23

The largest political administrative unit in the country is variously called a state (Mexico), district (Belize), and department (Guatemala

and Belize). In Belize, the next largest administrative unit is the village or township level. These are very numerous within districts

and generally represent very small populations. For that reason, the district level in Belize has been used as the equivalent of the

municipalities in the other countries.

For Honduras the data represent the numbers of individuals that identify their ethnicity as that of an indigenous or traditional

group, not ethno-language speakers per se. The table only includes the top two municipalities in each department in terms of the

percentage of individuals reporting affiliation with a traditional ethnic group. The full table is available in Appendix 3.

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