This book provides a clear and comprehensive description of the
Ocotepec/Tapalapa variant of Chiapas Zoque. Zoque is one of the two
major branches of the Mixe-Zoquean language family, spoken in the
southern part of Mexico. Until the Spanish conquest in the
sixteenth century the Mixe-Zoquean languages covered a large area
from Veracruz on the Gulf coast to the border of Guatemala and the
Pacific coast. Inscriptions in Zoque from the first half of the
first millennium AD are the oldest known linguistic documents in
Mesoamerica.The Zoquean area once included the entire heartland of
the Olmecs, who almost certainly spoke a proto-Zoquean or
proto-Mixe-Zoquean language. The Zoques are thus the most likely
direct descendents of the oldest known civilization of Mexico. As a
result of a long history of close contact, Zoque and Mayan share
areal features, and there are lexical borrowings in both
directions, but genetically and typologically they are clearly
distinct. The Zoque-speaking area has shrunk considerably since
pre-colonial times. In 1982 an eruption from the volcano Chichonal
destroyed a central part of the Zoque core area and caused a mass
migration of Zoque speakers to parts of Mexico where Spanish is the
dominant language. This record of an unusual and critically
endangered language will be a vital resource for linguists of all
theoretical persuasions.
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