Chontal Maya | |
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Yokotʼan | |
Pronunciation | [jɔʔkɔʔtʼan] |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | North central and southern Tabasco |
Ethnicity | Chontal Maya |
Native speakers | 61,000 (2020 census)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | chf |
Glottolog | taba1266 |
ELP | Chontal de Tabasco |
Yokotʼan (self-denomination), also 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.[1] According to the National Catalog of Indigenous Languages of Mexico-INALI, Yokotʼan has at least four dialects: Nacajuca (Central), Centla (Northern), Macuspana (Southern) and Tamulte (Eastern).
The Chontal Maya are concentrated in 159 settlements in 5 municipalities of Tabasco (Brown 2005:122).
Some Chontal settlements near the town of Nacajuca include (Brown 2005:116):
Some Chontal settlements in the northeastern Centla region include (Brown 2005:116):
Chontal settlements near Macuspana include Benito Juárez and Aquiles Serdan (Brown 2005).
Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | |||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | ʔ |
glottalized | pʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | ||
voiced | b | d | |||||
Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
Tap/Flap | ɾ | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | ɘ | o |
Open | a |
Brown, Denise Fay. 2005. "The Chontal Maya of Tabasco." In Sandstrom, Alan R., and Enrique Hugo García Valencia. 2005. Native peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Knowles, Susan Marie. 1984. "A descriptive grammar of Chontal Maya (San Carlos dialect)." Thesis (Ph. D.)--Tulane University, 1984.
"La lengua maya-chontal de Tabasco / [selección de textos y edición, Tomás Pérez Suárez]." 1984. Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico : Editora Municipal, H. Ayuntamiento Constitucional (1983–1985), 1984.
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