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Tzotzil, Venustiano Carranza

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: tzo
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	4,230 (1990 census). 58 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 60,000 (1990 census).
Region	Central Chiapas, Venustiano Carranza Municipio, Venustiano Carranza, El Puerto, and El Paraiso de Grijalva towns.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 138
Alternate names	San Bartolomé Venustiano Carranza Tzotzil
Dialects	66% intelligibility with Chenalhó Tzotzil [tze], 65% with Zinacantán [tzz], 57% with Chamula [tzc], 56% with Huixtán [tzu].
Classification	Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Tzeltalan
Language use	Few use Spanish.
Language development	Taught in primary and secondary schools.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Agriculturalists: maize, beans; fishermen.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1960. "The translation of questions into Huixteco."

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1961. "Huixteco (Maya Tzotzil) place-names."

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1962. "Huixteco translation problems."

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1963. Exclusive-inclusive in Huixteco Matthew.

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1967. "The devils and the young boys: a Tzotzil myth."

COWAN, Marion M., author. 1969. Tzotzil grammar.  

COWAN, Marion M., author; DELGATY, Alfa Hurley Vda. de; SÁNCHEZ, Agustín Ruíz, compilers. 1978. Diccionario tzotzil de San Andrés, con variaciones dialectales: Tzotzil-español, español-tzotzil.  

COWAN, Marion M.; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1968. "The verb phrase in Huixtec Tzotzil."

DELGATY, Alfa, author. 1961. "Notes on dependent versus independent nouns in Tsotsil."

DELGATY, Colin C., author. 1961. "Tzotzil verb phrase structure."  

DELGATY, Colin C., compiler. 1964. Vocabulario tzotzil de San Andrés, Chiapas.

ELSON, Benjamin F., editor. 1961. Mayan studies 1.  

JACOBS, Kenneth; LONGACRE, Robert E., authors. 1967. "Patterns and rules in Tzotzil grammar."

PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1962. "Dimensions of grammatical constructions."

WEATHERS, Kenneth, author. 1946. "La agricultura de los tzotzil de Nabenchauc, Chiapas, Méx."

WEATHERS, Kenneth; WEATHERS, Nadine, authors. 1949. Diccionario español-tzotzil, tzotzil-español.

WEATHERS, Nadine, author. 1947. "Tsotsil phonemes, with special reference to allophones of b."

WEATHERS, Nadine, author. 1949. Tzotzil texts and dictionary.

WEATHERS, Nadine, author. 1950. "Morphological analysis of a Tzotzil (Mayan) text."