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Chontal Of Guerrero
Chontal (from nah, chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Pre-Conquest Maya region * Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of Maya during the Late Classic and Postclassic Eras Mexico Guerrero * Chontal of Guerrero ( es), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero Tabasco * Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco * Chontal Maya language, spoken by the Chontal Maya people Oaxaca * Chontal of Oaxaca, another name for the Tequistlatecan languages ** Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, another name for the Huamelula language ** Highland Oaxaca Chontal, a language spoken by some indigenous people in the state Nicaragua * Chontales Department, one of fifteen departments in Nicaragua * Chontal of Nicaragua Chontal (from nah, chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Pre-Conquest Maya region * Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of May ...
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Putún Maya
Putún or Chontal Maya is a collective name for several groups of Maya that displaced much of the older leadership of the Maya Lowlands during the Late Classic and Postclassic. The Putún, who came from the Gulf coast in the northwest region of the Maya area, are generally held to have been more Mexicanized than their contemporaries. They were associated with the Puuc architectural style and distinctive orangeware pottery. The Itza are often considered a group of Putún Maya.Schele & Freidel (1990, p.497) The contemporary Chontal Maya of Tabasco Tabasco (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa. It is located in ... speak a closely related language. Notes References * * Maya peoples {{mesoamerica-stub ...
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Chontal Of Guerrero
Chontal (from nah, chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Pre-Conquest Maya region * Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of Maya during the Late Classic and Postclassic Eras Mexico Guerrero * Chontal of Guerrero ( es), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero Tabasco * Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco * Chontal Maya language, spoken by the Chontal Maya people Oaxaca * Chontal of Oaxaca, another name for the Tequistlatecan languages ** Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, another name for the Huamelula language ** Highland Oaxaca Chontal, a language spoken by some indigenous people in the state Nicaragua * Chontales Department, one of fifteen departments in Nicaragua * Chontal of Nicaragua Chontal (from nah, chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Pre-Conquest Maya region * Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of May ...
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Chontal Maya People
The Chontal Maya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for ''chontalli'', which means "foreigner", has been applied to various ethnic groups in Mexico. The Chontal refer to themselves as the Yokot'anob or the Yokot'an, meaning "the speakers of Yoko ochoco", but writers about them refer to them as the Chontal of Centla, the Tabasco Chontal, or in Spanish, ''Chontales''. They consider themselves the descendants of the Olmecs, and are not related to the Oaxacan Chontal. Location The Yokot'an inhabit 21 towns in a large area known as "la Chontalpa" that extends across five municipalities of Tabasco: Centla, El Centro, Jonuta, Macuspana, and Nacajuca. In Nacajuca, they form a majority of the population. The terrain is highly varied — no single landform dominates — and it has many bodies of water. The land is traversed by seasonally-flooding rivers, and there are numerous lakes, lagoons, and wetlands. The climate is humi ...
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Chontal Maya Language
''Yokotʼan'' (self-denomination), also known as Chontal Maya, is a Maya language of the Cholan family spoken in 2020 by around 60 thousand Chontal Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. According to the National Catalog of Indigenous Languages of Mexico- INALIYokotʼanhas at least four dialects: Nacajuca (Central), Centla (Northern), Macuspana (Southern) and Tamulte (Eastern). Distribution The Chontal Maya are concentrated in 159 settlements in 5 municipalities of Tabasco (Brown 2005:122). * Centla *Centro Centro may refer to: Places Brazil *Centro, Santa Maria, a neighborhood in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro, Porto Alegre, a neighborhood of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Centro (Duque de Caxias), a neighborhood of Du ... * Jonuta * Macuspana * Nacajuca (comprising more than 50% of the Chontal Maya population) Some Chontal settlements near the town of Nacajuca include (Brown 2005:116): *El Tigre *Saloya *Guatacaloa *Olcuatitan *Tuc ...
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Tequistlatecan Languages
Tequistlatec, also called Chontal, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico. Chontal was spoken by 6,000 or so people in 2020. Languages * Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal), * Tequistlatec (extinct), * Highland Oaxaca Chontal. Name Although most authors use the form ''tequistlatec(an)'' today, this is based on an improper derivation in Nahuatl (the correct derivation from '' Tequisistlán'' would be ''Tequisistec(an)'', and both terms were used by Sapir interchangeably). Classification The Tequistlatecan languages are part of the proposed Hokan family, but are often considered to be a distinct family. Campbell and Oltrogge (1980) proposed that the Tequistlatecan languages may be related to Jicaquean (see Tolatecan), but this hypothesis has not been generally accepted. See also * Huamelultec vocabulary list on the Spanish Wikipedia The Spanish Wikipedia ( es, Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-lang ...
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Huamelula Language
Huamelultec (also known as Huamelula Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca) is one of the Chontal languages of Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ..., Mexico. It is spoken in the Oaxacan municipalities of San Pedro Huamelula (settlements of Barra de la Cruz, El Bejuco, El Coyul, El Gavilán, El Limón, El Porvenir, Guayacán, Los Cocos, Maximino Cruz (Rancho Maximino Cruz), Morro Ayuta, Paja Blanca, Río Papaya, Río Seco, San Isidro Chacalapa, San Pedro Huamelula, Santa María (Santa María Huamelula), and Tapanala), Santiago Astata (settlements of La Cotorra, La Tortolita (Fraccionamiento la Tortolita), Santiago Astata, Zaachila, and Zaachilac), and Tehuantepec (settlement of Morro Mazatán). The name has been misspelled ''Tlamel ...
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Highland Oaxaca Chontal
Highland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca, is one of the Chontal languages of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is sometimes called ''Tequistlatec'', but is not the same as Tequistlatec proper, which is extinct. Background Highland Oaxaca Chontal (or Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca) is one of three Tequistlatecan languages family groups. The other two are Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal) and Tequistlatec (extinct). They are spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico. Tequistlatecan language is also referred to as the Chontal of Oaxaca. The distinct breakdown in the dialect of the Chontal of Oaxaca is as follows: Highland Chontal (the mountainous terrain) and Lowland Chontal (of Pacific coast). The best way to hear and remember Highland Chontal is through the beautiful myths that the native speakers share, a method used by the locals to converse the language. It was spoken by 4,400 people in 2010. Phonology Consonants Highland Chontal has ...
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Chontales Department
Chontales ( es, Departamento de Chontales) () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 6,481 km² and has a population of 191,856. The capital is Juigalpa. Some of land overlooks Lake Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua) on the western side. The department is livestock and fishing based, and is also a producer of apples. Geography The Chontales Department is situated in the central-southwest part of the country. It is bordered by the Boaco Department to the north, the Río San Juan Department to the south, the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region to the east and Lake Cocibolca to the west. Chontales geographically primarily consists of the slopes around Lake Cocibolca, the Serranía Chontaleña range and rolling hills that undulate towards the Caribbean plain. The Cuisalá, a tributary of the Mayales flows in the northwestern part of the department. The shoreline of Lake Cocibolca within the department is about , between the mouths of the Tecolostote and Oyate ...
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Chontal Of Nicaragua
Chontal (from nah, chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Pre-Conquest Maya region * Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of Maya during the Late Classic and Postclassic Eras Mexico Guerrero * Chontal of Guerrero ( es), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero Tabasco * Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco * Chontal Maya language, spoken by the Chontal Maya people Oaxaca * Chontal of Oaxaca, another name for the Tequistlatecan languages ** Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, another name for the Huamelula language ** Highland Oaxaca Chontal, a language spoken by some indigenous people in the state Nicaragua * Chontales Department Chontales ( es, Departamento de Chontales) () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 6,481 km² and has a population of 191,856. The capital is Juigalpa. Some of land overlooks Lake Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua) on the western ..., one of fift ...
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