Chontal (from Nahuatl languages: chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective...

15,324 Cuicateco – 12,128 Zoque – 10,000 (est) Amuzgo – 4,819 Oaxacan Chontal – 4,610 Tacuate – 1,726 Chochotec – 524 Ixcateco – 207 Popoloco – 61 Of...

The Chontal Maya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for chontalli, which means "foreigner", has been applied...

also called Chontal, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico. Chontal was spoken by...

(self-denomination), also known as Chontal Maya, is a Maya language of the Cholan family spoken in 2020 by around 60,000 Chontal Maya people of the Mexican state...

Chontal language may refer to: in Oaxaca, one of the Tequistlatecan languages in Tabasco, the Chontal Maya language This set index article includes a...

Huamelultec (also known as Huamelula Chontal, Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Costa de Oaxaca) is one of the Chontal languages of Oaxaca, Mexico. It...

Highland Oaxaca Chontal, or Chontal de la Sierra de Oaxaca, is one of the Chontal languages of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is sometimes called Tequistlatec, but...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Others theories claim that it is a derivative of Chontal Tabascan word yokat'an meaning speaker of the Yoko ochoco language, or...

Q'eqchi'. Language isolates: Seri Tequistlatecan languages: Lowland Chontal, Highland Chontal Purépecha Huave *In danger of extinction. The deaf community uses...

an insurrection in his absence. While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc...

Tequistlatec was the Chontal language of Tequisistlán town, Oaxaca. Highland Oaxaca Chontal is sometimes also called Tequistlatec, but is a distinct language...

 • 10,000 Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal)  • SE Oaxaca • 1000 Tequistlatec  • EXTINCT? Highland Oaxaca Chontal  • 3600 Huastecan Huastec  • N Veracruz...

the architects... — Peter Martyr, De Insulis, p. 349 Potonchán, was a Chontal Maya city, capital of the minor kingdom known as Tavasco or Tabasco. It...

"language" in Mesoamerica. Chontal Maya is not to be confused with the Tequistlatecan languages that are referred to as "Chontal of Oaxaca". The Ethnologue...

region in the north center of the state and a major center of Tabasco's Chontal Maya population. Although the local economy is still based on agriculture...

Indian women." On the other side of the peninsula, the head town of the Chontal province of Acalan (Itzamkanac) venerated Ixchel as one its main deities...

purchased by a group of Chontal Maya who brought her to the town of Potonchán. It was here that Malinche started to learn the Chontal Maya language, and perhaps...

handcrafts and surrounding Chontal villages such as Tucta, Mazateupa, Oxiacaque, Tecoluta and Guatacalca, where many customs and the Chontal Maya language are...

Acalan (Chontal Maya: Tamactun, Nahuatl: Acallan) was a Chontal Maya region in what is now southern Campeche, Mexico. Its capital was Itzamkanac. The...

de Álvarez and Tlacotepec, later conquering the areas occupied by the Chontal Maya and Matlatzincas. By the 15th century, the territory of the modern...

Chiapas, Tabasco, and Campeche in Mexico. This language, together with Chontal, Ch'orti', and Ch'olti', constitute the Cholan language group. The Cholan...

Itza, Kʼicheʼ, Qʼeqchiʼ, Xinca, Tektitek, Huastecan, Mopan, Lacandon, Chontal, Akatek, Jakaltek, Qʼanjobʼal, Tzeltal, Mochoʼ, Tojolab'al, Mam, Ixil,...

Rica), chile de monte / chile del monte / chile mosquito / mashito (by the Chontal/Maya natives in Tabasco), amash / timpinchile (in Chiapas), chilpaya (in...

Caravan crashed into the Cerro Chontal, a mountain in Costa Rica. The aircraft crashed into a wooded hillside of the Cerro Chontal approximately four minutes...

arrived via Putún Maya merchants from the Gulf Coast of Mexico. These Chontal merchants probably actively promoted the feathered serpent worshipers throughout...

coast of Mexico in March 1519. The Castilians defeated a 10,000-strong Chontal Mayan army at Potonchán on 24 March and emerged triumphant against a larger...

Region, Yukon Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Quebec and Labrador, Canada Chontal Maya 37,072 Mexico Mexico Wichi 36,135 Chaco, Argentina Chaco, Argentina...

period in captivity with the Maya, before escaping. Aguilar had learned the Chontal Maya language and was able to translate for Cortés. Cortés's military experience...

or Tavasco was a Chontal Maya Nation in the westernmost area of the Maya region. Sometime, probably during the 12th century the Chontal Maya in the westernmost...