Tzotzil
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The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.[1] 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.[2][3]
Total population | |
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~298,000 | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Mexico ( Chiapas) | |
Languages | |
Tzotzil and Mexican Spanish | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Maya people |
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.[4] The word tzotzil originally meant "bat people" or "people of the bat" in the Tzotzil language (from tzotz "bat").[5] Today the Tzotzil refer to their language as Bats'i k'op, which means "true word" in the modern language.[6]: I:p.162, 234