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Tzeltal, Oxchuc

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: tzh
This ISO 639-3 code has undergone change through the merging of one or more retired code elements. For more information, see the code change history documentation.

Population	90,000 (2000 S. Hoffman). 50,000 monolinguals.
Region	East central Chiapas, Oxchuc area.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 136
Alternate names	Cancuc, Chanal, Highland Tzeltal, Tenango, Tenejapa
Dialects	Chanal Cancuc, Tenango.
Classification	Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Tzeltalan
Language use	Vigorous. Some Tzotzil also speak Tzeltal. All domains. Oral use in administration, commerce, some oral and written use in education, religion. All ages. Positive attitude. Also use Spanish. 100 can also speak Tojolabal [toj].
Language development	50,000 readers, 40,000 can write. Radio programs. TV. Dictionary. Bible: 2002.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS. Agriculturalists: maize, coffee. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BLACKBURN, Linda, author. 1979. Basic values as reflected in language: Tzeltal.

CRUZ AGUILAR, Manuel; GERDEL, Florence L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., compilers. 1999. Diccionario Tzeltal de Bachajón, Chiapas.

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1949. "A case of delayed afterbirth among the Tzeltal Indians."

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1952. "Nacimientos complicados entre los indios tzeltales (Complicated births among the Tzeltal indians)."

GERDEL, Florence L., author. 1974. Tzeltal (Mayan) phonemes.  

GERDEL, Florencia L.; SLOCUM, Marianna C., compilers. 1965. Vocabulario tzeltal de Bachajón: Castellano-tzeltal, tzeltal-castellano.

JARVIS, David, author. 1974. Tzeltal literacy and culture change.

KELLER, Kathryn C., author. 1973. Review of: Tzeltal numeral classifiers: a study in ethnographic semantics, by Brent Berlin.

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1948. "Tzeltal (Mayan) noun and verb morphology."

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1950. Vocabulario tzeltal.

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1953. Vocabulario tzeltal-español.

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1956. "Cultural changes among the Oxchuc Tzeltals."

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1958. "Christianization of vocabulary in the translation of the Tzeltal New Testament."

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1965. "The origin of corn, and other Tzeltal myths."

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1980. A sketch of Bachajon Tzeltal clause and sentence structure.  

SLOCUM, Marianna C., author. 1990. Using FIESTA to update a published New Testament.

WALTER, Stephen L., author. 1980. Application of a cognitive model of linguistic structure to the analysis of selected problems in Tzeltal (Mayan) grammar.

Vernacular Publications

Te bitʼil ya scʼan ya acanantay abaic swenta yuʼun max awaʼiyic chamel (Como conservar la salud: Un manual de higiene en el idioma tzeltal de Oxchuc y en español). 1963.