| Chontal Maya | |
|---|---|
| Yokotʼan | |
| Pronunciation | [jɔʔkɔʔtʼan] |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | North central and southernTabasco |
| Ethnicity | Chontal Maya |
Native speakers | 61,000 (2020 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | chf |
| Glottolog | taba1266 |
| ELP | Chontal de Tabasco |
Yokotʼan (self-denomination), also known asChontal Maya, is aMayalanguage of theCholan family spoken in 2020 by around 60,000Chontal Maya people of the Mexican state ofTabasco.[1] According to the National Catalog of Indigenous Languages of Mexico-INALI,Yokotʼan has at least four dialects:Nacajuca (Central),Centla (Northern),Macuspana (Southern) andTamulte (Eastern).
The Chontal Maya are concentrated in 159 settlements in 5municipalities of Tabasco (Brown 2005:122).
Some Chontal settlements near the town of Nacajuca include (Brown 2005:116):
Some Chontal settlements in the northeastern Centla region include (Brown 2005:116):
Chontal settlements near Macuspana include Benito Juárez and Aquiles Serdan (Brown 2005).
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | ts | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| glottalized | pʼ | tʼ | tsʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | ||
| voiced | b | d | |||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
Brown, Denise Fay. 2005. "The Chontal Maya of Tabasco." In Sandstrom, Alan R., and Enrique Hugo García Valencia. 2005.Native peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Knowles, Susan Marie. 1984. "A descriptive grammar of Chontal Maya (San Carlos dialect)." Thesis (Ph. D.)--Tulane University, 1984.
"La lengua maya-chontal de Tabasco / [selección de textos y edición, Tomás Pérez Suárez]." 1984. Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco, Mexico : Editora Municipal, H. Ayuntamiento Constitucional (1983–1985), 1984.
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