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Tzotzil is a Maya language spoken by the indigenous Tzotzil Maya people in the Mexican state of Chiapas. According to an INEGI
(Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática) 2005 census, there are 329,937 speakers of Tzotzil in Mexico,
making it the 6th most spoken indigenous language in the country. Most speakers are bilingual in Spanish as a second language.
In Central Chiapas, some primary schools and a secondary school are taught in Tzotzil. Tzeltal is the most closely related
language to Tzotzil and together they form a Tzeltalan sub-branch of the Mayan language family. Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Ch'ol
are the most widely spoken languages in Chiapas. There are six dialects of Tzotzil with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility,
named after the different regions of Chiapas where they are spoken: Chamula, Zinacantán, San Andrés Larráinzar, Huixtán, Chenalhó,
and Venustiano Carranza. The Tzotzil variant of San Bartolomé de Los Llanos, in the Venustiano Carranza region, is unique
for having two phonemic tones. Centro de Lengua, Arte y Literatura Indígena (CELALI) suggested in 2002 that the name of the
language (and the ethnicity) should be spelled Tsotsil, rather than Tzotzil. Native speakers and writers of the language are
picking up the habit of using s instead of z. |
Names (more)[cs] Tzotzilština[cy] Tzotzil [de] Tzotzil-Sprache [en] Tzotzil language [eo] Cocila Lingvo [fr] Tzotzil [it] Lingua tzotzil [lt] Cocilių kalba [mk] Цоцилски јазик [no] Tzotzil [pt] Língua tsotsil [qu] Tsotsil simi [ru] Цоцильский язык [es] Idioma tzotzil |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : tzoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tzohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:tzo More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: tzoFreebase ISO 639-3 : tzo GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |