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Tojolabal Language
Tojolabal or Tojolabʼal may refer to: * Tojolabal people, an ethnic group of Mexico * Tojolabʼal language Tojol-ab'al is a Mayan language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico by the Tojolabal people. Tojol-ab'al is spoken, principally in the departments of the Chiapanecan Colonia of Las Margaritas, by about 70,000 people. It is related to the Chuj language. ..., a Mayan language {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tojolabal People
The Tojolabal are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Chiapas. They traditionally speak the Tojolabal language. Population density The Tojolabal people are spread across the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Las Margaritas is believed to have the largest group of Tojolabal, with the next largest in population density being Comitán. Around the municipalities, there are 439 Tojolabal villages in which most of the population resides.dice.missouri.edu/docs/mayan/Tojolabal.pdf Archaeology The Tojolabal people are known for the ancient site of K'atepan, a temple plaza against a mountainside which can be accessed by large stairways. See also *Wajxaklajun Wajxaklajun (pronounced ) (also known as Ystapalapán, Yolk'u, El Calvario, Carvao and Curvao) is a ruin of the ancient Maya civilization situated adjacent to the modern town of San Mateo Ixtatán, in the Huehuetenango Department of Guatemala. Waj ... References Populated places in Chiapas Indigenous peoples in Mexico {{No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tojolabʼal Language
Tojol-ab'al is a Mayan language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico by the Tojolabal people. Tojol-ab'al is spoken, principally in the departments of the Chiapanecan Colonia of Las Margaritas, by about 70,000 people. It is related to the Chuj language. The name Tojolabal derives from the phrase , meaning "right language". Nineteenth-century documents sometimes refer to the language and its speakers as "Chaneabal" (meaning "four languages", possibly a reference to the four Mayan languages – Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, and Chuj—spoken in the Chiapas highlands and nearby lowlands along the Guatemala border). Anthropologist Carlos Lenkersdorf has claimed several linguistic and cultural features of the Tojolabal, primarily the language's ergativity, show that they do not give cognitive weight to the distinctions subject/object, active/passive. This he interprets as being evidence in favor of the controversial Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The official Writing Standard of the Tojol-ab’al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |