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| title=Ethnic groups in the Mutul
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| left1='''Ethnic groups'''
| right1='''Percent'''
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{{bar percent|{{wp|Chʼolan languages|K'olan peoles}} </small>(incl. {{wp|Chʼoltiʼ language|Chan}}, {{wp|Chontal Maya|Yokot'anob}} and {{wp|Chʼortiʼ people|Witik people}})</small>|green|40|40%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Yucatec Maya language|Xamant'aan}} </small>(incl. {{wp|Kowoj|K'owoh people}})</small>|black|20|20%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Kʼicheʼ people}} </small>(incl. {{wp|Achi people}})</small>|yellow|10|10%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Totonacan languages|Tatinak}}|orange|8|8%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Mixtec|Nuu Davi}}|gold|4|4%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Zapotec peoples|Ben Zaa}}|cyan|4|4%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Kaqchikel people|Kakchikel}}|purple|3|3%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Chibchan languages|Chibchan peoples}}|light blue|2|2%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Otomi|Nuhmu}}|brown|2|2%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Tzotzil|Bats'i kop}}|blue|2|2%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Huastecan languages|Teenek}}|pink|2|2%}}
{{bar percent|{{wp|Itzaʼ language|Ytze}}|red|1.2|1.2%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Lencas}}|grey|1|1%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Mopan people|Mopan}}|white|0.8|0.8%}}
{{bar_percent|{{wp|Xinca}}|dark blue|0.4|0.4%}}
{{bar_percent|other|white|0.6|0.6%}}
}}

The majority of the population of the [[Mutul]] consist of {{wp|Mayan languages|Macro-Chan peoples}} which include the people related to the {{wp|Chʼolan languages|K'olan speakers}}, like the {{wp|Chʼortiʼ people|Witik people}} and the {{wp|Chontal Maya|Yokot'anob}} who, despite having be part of the Divine Kingdom for millenias, retain important cultural differences compared to the ethnic Chan and K'ol peoples. Other important branches of the Macro-Chan include the {{wp|Yucatec Maya language|Xamant'aan}} (and other inhabitant of the Xuman Peninsula), the {{wp|Kʼicheʼ people|K'iche}} (from whom the current ruling lineage, the [[Ilok'tab Dynasty]] hail), and smaller ethnicities like the {{wp|Itzaʼ language|Ytze}} and the linguistically related {{wp|Mopan people|Mopan}}. All the Chan-related peoples, sometime called "Mutuleses proper", form together 75 to 80 percents of the total population, depending on the estimates.

{{wp|Oto-manguean languages|Oto-manguean speakers}} constitute a large minority of the total population (around 10%), with groups such as the {{wp|Otomi|Nuhmu}}, the {{wp|Zapotec peoples|Ben Zaa}}, and the {{wp|Mixtec|Nuu Davi}}. They are linguistically distinct from the {{wp|Totonacan languages|Tatinak}}, one of the largest non-Chan ethnic group of the Mutul (6 to 8%). The Tatinak were notably the only non-Chan ethnicity to have given a Dynasty to the Mutul: the [[K'uy Dynasty|K'uy]].

The {{wp|Chibchan languages|Chibchan}} account for 2 to 3% of the population and are made of many recognized minorities,  such as the Ngabe, Bri, and Paya, living essentially in rural communities in the eastern Mutul. The remainder of the population include other minorities like the {{wp|Lencas}} or the [[Sante Reze|Ucayare]].

==Macro-Chan speaking peoples==
===Chan===
In the ethnic census of the Divine Kingdom, based around the maternal tongue of the recensed "citizens", around 20% of the population is of {{wp|Ch'olti' language|Chan}} ([[Mutli]]: "చన") origin. The Chan consider themselves to be the ancestral "core" of the [[Mutul]], with their origins in the [[Paol'lunyu Dynasty|Paol'lunyu]] and [[Chaan Dynasty]] where they distinguished themselves from the other {{wp|Ch'olan languages|K'olan people}}. Despite close linguistic and cultural ties, a distinction is made between the Chan, who identify predominantly with the populations of the old cities of [[Kaminyajunlyu]], [[Yux]], and [[Uaxakatz'am]], and the {{wp|Chʼortiʼ people|Witik people}}), who tie their origins with the ancestral city of [[Ox Witik]] instead. The cultural distinction with the {{wp|Chʼolan languages|K'ol}} is more pronounced, despite the closer proximity between the two ethnicities, and is due to the history of the K'ol as a border people, influenced both by the {{wp|Itza|Ytze kingdoms}} to their north and the [[Mutul]]to their south, as well as a more rural repartition compared to the very urbanized Chan.

===Yokot'anob===
{{see also|Yajawil of Yokok'ab}}

The Yokot'anob ([[Mutli]]: "యొకొత్తనభొ") are Chan-related peoples living in the modern [[Yajawil of Yokok'ab]]. Their territory was the craddle of the old {{wp|Yajawil of Yokok'ab#Chakb’ah|Chakb’ah civilization}}, one of the earliest culture to have emerged in the pre-dynastic era of the Divine Kingdom and had a major influence over all of the western Mutul. The Yokot'anob claim that the Chakb'ah are their direct forefathers through the {{wp|Epi-Olmec culture|Tzib'ah culture}}, which scholars suppose were an "evolution" of the Chakb'ah and thrived as a civilization until their conquest by the [[Chaan Dynasty]].

The status of Yokok'ab as a center of culture and civilization would remain well into the [[Mutulese Ochran]] era, where Yokot'an became the lingua franca of the Vespanian and Makrian Circuits.

===Batz'i k'op===

The Batz'i k'op ([[Mutli]]: "''బఝి ఖొపొ''", "''True Words''") inhabit central and southern Mutul. They represent between one to two millions people, depending on the data, and are characterized by their language which is part of the Chan branch, yet distinct enough from them to represent its own sub-line. There has been call to separate another sub-group from the Batz'i kop called the "Winik Atel" ([[Mutli]]: "''వినికి అతెలి''", "'''Working Men''") and to consider their dialect as a fully distinct language from "K'op", spoken by the Batz'i k'op. To this day, the Divine Throne staunchily refuse to distinguish the two potential groups.

The exact origins of the Batz'i k'op are unknown, but it is suspected that they have ancestral ties to the {{wp|Epi-Olmec culture|Tzib'ah culture}} and more specifically to the Highland settlements like [[Joy Chan]]. They might also have represented a mixture of {{wp|Yajawil of Yokok'ab#Chakb’ah|Chakb’ah}} ancetral populations and Tzib'ah settlers who met and merged in the modern [[Yajawil of Bennal]].