known as Chontal Maya, is a Maya language of the Cholan family spoken in 2020 by around 60,000 Chontal Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. According...
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in Tabasco reached their peak between the 6th and 7th centuries. In the early 16th century, the main ethnicities of Tabasco were the Mayas-Chontals, the...
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The Chontal Maya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for chontalli, which means "foreigner", has been applied...
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Chontal language may refer to: in Oaxaca, one of the Tequistlatecan languages in Tabasco, the Chontal Maya language This set index article includes a...
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Postclassic Eras Chontal of Guerrero (es), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco Chontal Maya language...
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Indigenous peoples of Oaxaca (redirect from Oaxaca Chontal people)
name "Chontal" comes from the Nahuatl, meaning "foreigner" or "foreign", and is also applied to an unrelated language of Tabasco. The Chontal may have...
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relatives the Ch'orti' language of Guatemala and Honduras, and the Chontal Maya language of Tabasco are believed to be the modern languages that best reflect...
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Chʼolan languages form a branch of the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Chʼol, Chʼoltiʼ, Chʼortiʼ, and Chontal. Notably...
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branch: Ch'ol language, Chontal Maya language, Tzeltal language, Tzotzil language, Qanjobalan–Chujean branch: Chuj language, Tojolabal language, Q'anjob'al...
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• Chiapas • 1000 Western Greater Tzeltalan Cholan Chol • Tabasco, Chiapas • 135,000 Chontal • Tabasco • 55,000 Chorti • Honduras, E Guatemala • 30,000...
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marriage has been legal in Tabasco since 27 October 2022. A bill to legalise same-sex marriage was passed by the Congress of Tabasco on 19 October 2022. It...
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Chiapas. Its closest relative, the Chontal Maya language, is spoken by 55,000 in the state of Tabasco. Another related language, now endangered, is Chʼortiʼ...
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Tabasco or Tavasco was a Chontal Maya Nation in the westernmost area of the Maya region. Sometime, probably during the 12th century the Chontal Maya in...
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California Press. Scholes, France V.; Roys, Ralph L. (1968). The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel: A Contribution to the History and Ethnography...
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Nacajuca (category Populated places in Tabasco)
the state of Tabasco, Mexico. It is part of the Chontalapa region in the north center of the state and a major center of Tabasco's Chontal Maya population...
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador (category Politicians from Tabasco)
Indigenous Institute of Tabasco, where he promoted the addition of books in indigenous languages and the project of the Chontal ridge.[not verified in...
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Guarapo (drink) (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Mexican state of Tabasco, during the Spanish colonial period in the 16th century, when sugarcane was introduced from the Caribbean, the Chontal Maya people...
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considered a group of Putún Maya. The contemporary Chontal Maya of Tabasco speak a closely related language. Schele & Freidel (1990, p.350) Coe (1992, p.69)...
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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Chontalpa (category Geography of Tabasco)
Mexican state of Tabasco, which consists of four municipalities in the northwest of the state. Although the name refers to the state's Chontal Maya population...
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Pozol (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
consumed in the south of Mexico in the states of Campeche, Chiapas, and Tabasco. It is a thirst quencher that has also been used to fight diseases. It...
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Jalpa de Méndez (category Populated places in Tabasco)
Municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Tabasco, Mexico. It is considered part of the Chontal Maya region of the state, known for its production...
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Potonchán (category History of Tabasco)
Potonchán, was a Chontal Maya city, capital of the minor kingdom known as Tavasco or Tabasco. It occupied the left bank of the Tabasco River, which the...
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La Malinche (category History of Tabasco)
by a group of Chontal Maya who brought her to the town of Potonchán. It was here that Malinche started to learn the Chontal Maya language, and perhaps...
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is a town and municipality located in the north of the Mexican state of Tabasco, about 75 km due north of the state capital of Villahermosa on the Gulf...
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The Mayan languages are a group of languages spoken by the Maya peoples. The Maya form an enormous group of approximately 7 million people who are descended...
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Maya peoples (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
chiefly found in the Toledo District. The Mexican state of Tabasco is home to the Chontal Maya. Tabasco is a Mexican state with a northern coastline fringing...
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Tabscoob (category History of Tabasco)
uinik (Maya ruler) of the Potonchán jurisdiction, known for leading the Chontal Maya in the Battle of Centla against Spanish forces led by Hernán Cortés...
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Putún (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
territory dominated by the Chontal Maya: Ahualulco or Ayahualulco, a settlement on the western coast of the state of Tabasco, nearly within the current...
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all of which were subordinate to the Itza': Northern (Cobox) Western (Chontal) Eastern (Mopan and Yalain) Southern (Q'eqchi') The Nahua princess Malintzin...
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