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Ayapa Zoque (Ayapaneco), or Tabasco Zoque, is a nearly extinct Zoquean language of Ayapa, a village 10 km east of Comalcalco,
in Tabasco, Mexico. The native name is Nuumte Oote 'True Voice'. A vibrant, albeit minority, language until the middle of
the 20th century, the language suffered after the introduction of compulsory education in Spanish, urbanisation, and migration
of its speakers. As of 2011, only two people still spoke Ayapaneco fluently, Manuel Segovia (b. ca 1936) and Isidro Velasquez
(b. ca 1942). Daniel Suslak, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, is one of the linguists working
to prepare the first dictionary of the language; his efforts have been hampered by the fact that Mssrs. Segovia and Velazquez
do not like each other and refuse to speak, even as part of a recorded conversation for research purposes. The Instituto Nacional
de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) (also known as the National Indigenous Languages Institute) has also shown its interest in revitalising
the language. |
Names (more)[en] Ayapa Zoque |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : zoqLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/zoqhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:zoq More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: zoqFreebase ISO 639-3 : zoq GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |