Chontal

Chontal ( Nahuatl chontalli , "foreign") is a Nahua name for various indigenous peoples of Mexico who do not speak Nahuatl, as well as for their languages:

Chontal-Maya (Tabasco), own name Yokot'anob [Pl.] Or Yokot'an [Sg.] ("Speaker of the true language")
- Chontal Maya language , self-name Yokot t'an ("true language")
Chontal (Oaxaca): Tequistlatec languages
Chontal (Guerrero) (extinct, unclassified language)

In a similar way, the name "Chontal" was also used by the Nahua-speaking Nicarao for hostile neighboring ethnic groups in Nicaragua , from which the name of the Chontales department there goes back.

Individual evidence

↑ chontalli : extranjero. Rémi Siméon: Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana. Siglo Veintiuno, América Nuestra. 17th ed. En esp., Ciudad de México 2004. p. 108. (Orig. En francés 1885: Diccionnaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine). ISBN 968-23-0573-X
↑ [...] the Chontales (ie foreigners or barbarians in the Nahuatl language) in the highlands in the N. of Lake Managua, Johann E. Wappäus and Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of geography and statistics for the educated estates, volume 1, edition 3, p. 246. Verlag der Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863-1870.

[1] chontalli : extranjero. Rémi Siméon: Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana. Siglo Veintiuno, América Nuestra. 17th ed. En esp., Ciudad de México 2004. p. 108. (Orig. En francés 1885: Diccionnaire de la langue nahuatl ou mexicaine). ISBN 968-23-0573-X

[2] [...] the Chontales (ie foreigners or barbarians in the Nahuatl language) in the highlands in the N. of Lake Managua, Johann E. Wappäus and Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of geography and statistics for the educated estates, volume 1, edition 3, p. 246. Verlag der Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863-1870.