Zoque language
| O'de püt | ||
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| speaker | over 60,000 people | |
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| Official language in | National language in Mexico
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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Zoque (O'de püt) is an indigenous language in Mexico or a group of closely related languages spoken by the Zoque ethnic group . It is spoken by over 60,000 people around the isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mexican states of Oaxaca , Chiapas , Veracruz and Tabasco .
properties
Zoque is a polysynthetic ergative language .
classification
Together with the Mixe language, Zoque forms the Mixe-Zoque language family .
The approximately 60,000 speakers of the Zoque variants of Oaxaca and Chiapas call their language o'de püt . The variants of Soteapan, Texisistepec and ayapan the state of Veracruz are under the derogatory Nahuatl designation Popoluca known.
Due to the strong geographical isolation within the mountainous language area, there are strongly differing regional variants. SIL International divides the Zoque into eight individual languages:
- Gulf Zoque
- Sierra Popoluca [poi]
- Texistepec [poq]
- Ayapaneco, Ayapa Zoque [zoq]
- Oaxacan Zoque
- Chimalapa [zoh]
- Chiapas Zoque
- Copainalá Zoque [zoc]
- Francisco León Zoque [zos]
- Rayón Zoque [zor]
See also
literature
- Søren Wichmann: The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City 1995. ISBN 0-87480-487-6