Tzotzil Indians
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Name (Hebrew)
צוציל (שבט אינדיאני)
Name (Latin)
Tzotzil Indians
Other forms of name
Chamula Indians
Cinanteco Indians
Quelem Indians
Quelene Indians
Querene Indians
Tzinanteco Indians
Zotzil Indians
Zozil Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Indians of Mexico
Mayas
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q387073
Library of congress:
sh 85139213
Sources of Information
- Ethnologue:p. 17.
- Murdock world cult.:p. 130.
- Swanton Ind. tribes:p. 639.
- Voegelin lang.:p. 226 (Tzotzil (Zotzil, Zozil, Tzinanteco, Quélène, Quelem, Cinanteco, Chamula)
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Wikipedia description:
The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with the largest Tzotzil population are Chamula (48,500), San Cristóbal de las Casas (30,700), and Zinacantán (24,300), in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The Tzotzil language, like Tzeltal and Ch'ol, is descended from the proto-Ch'ol spoken in the late classic period at sites such as Palenque and Yaxchilan. The word tzotzil originally meant "bat people" or "people of the bat" in the Tzotzil language (from sotz' "bat"). Today the Tzotzil refer to their language as Bats'i k'op, which means "true language".: I:p.162, 234
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