Chiapas Zoque

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.

References

  1. ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed (2009). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/.