Zoque languages

Zoque
O'de püt
Ethnicity:	Zoques
Geographic distribution:	Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco
Linguistic classification:	Mixe–Zoquean Zoque
Subdivisions:	Gulf Zoquean Chimalapa Zoque Chiapas Zoque ? Epi-Olmec
Glottolog:	zoqu1261[1]
Locations (green) where Zoquean languages are spoken

The Zoque (/ˈsoʊkeɪ/)^[2] languages form a primary branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico. They are spoken by around 70,000 indigenous Zoque people. The Zoques call their language O'de püt.

Zoque-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XECOPA, broadcasting from Copainalá, Chiapas.

There are about 100,000 speakers of Zoque languages. 63,000 people reported their language to be "Zoque" in the 2010 census. An additional 41,000 reported their language to be "Popoluca"; probably 90% of these are Sierra Popoluca and thus Zoque.^[3]

Languages

Zoquean languages fall in three groups:

• Gulf Zoquean (Veracruz Zoque)

  • Sierra Popoluca (Soteapan Zoque),
  • Texistepec Popoluca
  • Ayapa Zoque (Tabasco Zoque)

  Oaxacan Zoque

  • Chimalapa Zoque

  Chiapas Zoque

  • Copainalá Zoque
  • Francisco León Zoque
  • Rayón Zoque (a dialect cluster)

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Zoque". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
3. INALI (2012) México: Lenguas indígenas nacionales

• Wichmann, Søren, 1995. The Relationship Among the Mixe–Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City. ISBN 0-87480-487-6

Recordings

• Sierra Popoluca Collection of Lynda Boudreault at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Contains audio recordings and transcriptions of Zoque and Soteapan in a wide range of genres. Some files are restricted but may be available upon request.

See also

• Epi-Olmec script