It is spoken by the Mopan people who live in the Petén Department of Guatemala and in the Maya Mountains region of Belize.
Mopan began to diverge from the other Yucatecan languages at least one thousand years ago.
[2][3] Towns where Mopan is prominently spoken include San Luis, Poptún, Melchor de Mencos, and Dolores in Guatemala,[4] as well as San Antonio in the Toledo District of Belize.
[5] The following are the consonant sounds used by the Mopan Maya language (written with the International Phonetic Alphabet):[6] In addition, some sources list [ŋ] (the velar nasal) as a consonant sound in Mopan Maya.
For example, "parrot" (ix tʼutʼ) is typically feminine regardless of the sex of the animal.