Zoque languages
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| Zoque | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mexico | |
| Region: | Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco | |
| Total speakers: | >90,000 | |
| Language family: | American Mixe-Zoquean Zoque |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | – | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Zoque languages are languages of the Zoquean branch of the Mixe-Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico.
The Zoque languages are spoken in the in northern Chiapas and far eastern Chiapas around Chimalapa, and in Ayapa Tabasco altogether by around 88,000 indigenous Zoque people. The Zoques call their language O'de püt.
The other languages of the Zoquean branch are Soteapanec Zoque and Texistepec Zoque and Ayapa Zoque.
Zoque-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XECOPA, broadcasting from Copainalá, Chiapas.
[edit] References
- Wichmann, Søren, 1995, The Relationship Among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City. ISBN 0-87480-487-6
[edit] References
Bachillerato bilingüe Mixe de Tlahuitoltepec
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