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The Uspanteko (Uspanteco Uspanteko Uspantec) is a Mayan language of Guatemala closely related to K’iche’. It is spoken in the Uspantán and Playa Grande Ixcán[1] municipios in the Department El Quiché. It is also one of only three Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (the others being Yukatek and one dialect of Tzotzil). It distinguishes between vowels with high tone and vowels with low tone.