Tojolabal language
| Tojol ab'al, Tojolab'al, Tojolwinik otik | ||
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Spoken in |
Mexico | |
| speaker | about 45,000 | |
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| Official language in | National language in Mexico
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Tojolabal (Tojolab'al, Tojolwinik otik) is an indigenous language in Mexico with about 45,000 speakers.
Surname
The name of the language, Tojol ab'al , means "original language" or "true language".
classification
Tojolabal belongs to the Maya languages and is closely related to the Chuj language .
distribution
According to the 2010 census, the language is spoken by 54,201 people in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the municipalities of Las Margaritas and Comitán .
literature
- Carlos Lenkersdorf: Los hombres verdaderos. Voces y testimonios tojolabales. Lengua y sociedad, naturaleza y cultura, artes y comunidad cósmica. Siglo XXI, Ciudad de México 1996. ISBN 968-23-1998-6