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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Tzotzil, Zinacantán

Tzotzil, Zinacantán

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3tzz
This ISO 639-3 code has been retired after the publication of Ethnologue, 16th edition. For more information, see the code change history documentation.

Population  25,000 (1990 census).
Region  West central Chiapas.
Language map  Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 124
Alternate names   Zinacanteco Tzotzil
Classification  Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan, Tzeltalan
Language development  NT: 1987.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO or VOS; short and long words, affixes; nontonal. Pastoralists; swidden agriculturalists.