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{{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-Chaan ethnic group of the Mutul (6 to 8%). The Tatinak were notably the only non-Chaan ethnicity to have given a Dynasty to the Mutul: the [[K'uy Dynasty|K'uy]]. | {{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-Chaan ethnic group of the Mutul (6 to 8%). The Tatinak were notably the only non-Chaan 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-Chaan speaking peoples== | |||
===Chaan=== | |||
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|Chaan}} origin. The Chaan 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 Chaan, 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 Chaan. | |||
===Yokot'anob=== | |||
{{see also|Yajawil of Yokok'ab}} | |||
===Bats'i k'op=== | |||
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The majority of the population of the Mutul consist of Macro-Chaan peoples which include the people related to the K'olan speakers, like the Witik people and the Yokot'anob who, despite having be part of the Divine Kingdom for millenias, retain important cultural differences compared to the ethnic Chaan and K'ol peoples. Other important branches of the Macro-Chaan include the Xamant'aan (and other inhabitant of the Xuman Peninsula), the K'iche (from whom the current ruling lineage, the Ilok'tab Dynasty hail), and smaller ethnicities like the Ytze and the linguistically related Mopan. All the Chaan-related peoples, sometime called "Mutuleses proper", form together 75 to 80 percents of the total population, depending on the estimates.
Oto-manguean speakers constitute a large minority of the total population (around 10%), with groups such as the Nuhmu, the Ben Zaa, and the Nuu Davi. They are linguistically distinct from the Tatinak, one of the largest non-Chaan ethnic group of the Mutul (6 to 8%). The Tatinak were notably the only non-Chaan ethnicity to have given a Dynasty to the Mutul: the K'uy.
The 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 Lencas or the Ucayare.
Macro-Chaan speaking peoples
Chaan
In the ethnic census of the Divine Kingdom, based around the maternal tongue of the recensed "citizens", around 20% of the population is of Chaan origin. The Chaan consider themselves to be the ancestral "core" of the Mutul, with their origins in the Paol'lunyu and Chaan Dynasty where they distinguished themselves from the other K'olan people. Despite close linguistic and cultural ties, a distinction is made between the Chaan, who identify predominantly with the populations of the old cities of Kaminyajunlyu, Yux, and Uaxakatz'am, and the Witik people), who tie their origins with the ancestral city of Ox Witik instead. The cultural distinction with the 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 Ytze kingdoms to their north and the Mutulto their south, as well as a more rural repartition compared to the very urbanized Chaan.