| Chiapas Zoque | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Mexico |
| Region | Chiapas |
| Native speakers | 30,000 (1990 census)[1] |
| Language family |
Mixe-Zoquean
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | variously: zoc – Copainalá Zoque zos – Francisco León Zoque zor – Rayón Zoque |
Chiapas Zoque is a dialect cluster of Zoquean languages indigenous to southern Mexico (Wichmann 1995). The three varieties, Francisco León (about 20,000 speakers in 1990), Copainalá (about 10,000), and Rayón (about 2,000), are named after the towns they are spoken in, though residents of Francisco León were relocated after their town was buried in the eruption of El Chichón Volcano in 1982. Francisco León and Copainalá are 83% mutually intelligible according to Ethnologue.