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Tzotzil

For the language, see Tzotzil language.
Tzotzil
Sotz'leb
Tzotzil people in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas
Total population
550,274 (2020)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Mexico ( Chiapas)
Languages
Tzotzil and Mexican Spanish
Related ethnic groups
Other Maya people

The Tzotzil are an Indigenous Maya people of the central highlands of Chiapas, Mexico.[2] 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.[3][4]

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.[5] The word tzotzil originally meant "bat people" or "people of the bat" in the Tzotzil language (from sotz' "bat").[6] Today the Tzotzil refer to their language as Bats'i k'op, which means "true language".[7]: I:p.162, 234 

  1. ^ INEGI.
  2. ^ Vogt, Evon Z. (1983). Ofrendas para los dioses: análisis simbólico de rituales zinacantecos. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica. As cited by Alfredo López Austin (1997), p. 133, 148 and following.
  3. ^ Rodríguez, Maria Concepción Obregón (2003). Tzotziles (PDF). Mexico: PNUD. ISBN 970-753-007-3.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Peoples of the World Foundation (1009) The Tzotzil Online version accessed on 2009-08-16.
  5. ^ Coe, Michael D. (1999). The Maya (6th ed.). New York: Thames & Hudson. pp. 134–136. ISBN 0-500-28066-5.
  6. ^ Laughlin, Robert M. (1975). The great Tzotzil dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  7. ^ Laughlin, Robert M. (1988). The great Tzotzil dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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