The Mixe-Zoque / ˌ m iː h eɪ ˈ s oʊ k eɪ / (also: Mixe-Zoquean, Mije-Soke, Mije-Sokean) languages are a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe-Zoquean languages as official: Mixe or ayook with 188,000 speakers, Zoque or o'de püt with 88,000 speakers, and the Popoluca Texistepec, commonly called either Texistepec Popoluca or Texistepec Zoque, is a Mixe-Zoquean language of the Zoquean branch spoken by a hundred indigenous Popoluca people in and around the town of Texistepec in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.. Within the Mixe-Zoquean family, Texistepec Popoluca is most closely related to Sierra Popoluca.. Texistepec Popoluca has been documented primarily in Ayapa Zoque (Ayapaneco), or Tabasco Zoque, is a critically endangered Zoquean language of Ayapa, a village 10 kilometres (6 mi) southeast of Comalcalco, in Tabasco, Mexico.The native name is Nuumte Oote "True Voice". A vibrant, albeit minority, language until the middle of the 20th century, the language suffered after the introduction of compulsory education in Spanish, urbanisation, and Aspectos históricos, sociales y culturales Historia de la lengua Escultura zoque de la cueva Los Bordos, Cintalapa, 600-900 d. C. El traslape del área histórica zoqueana y el área nuclear de la civilización olmeca (período preclásico), así como la evidencia arqueológica y epigráfica disponible, sugiere que esta antigua cultura pudo haber sido hablante de protomixe-zoque o protozoque. Mixe-Zoquean languages are spoken in an area spanning the Mexican isthmus of Tehuantepec. One member of the family is extinct (Tapachultec) and others nearly so (Ayapa Zoque and Oluta Popoluca); the remaining ones are, to different degrees, more viable, but none of the languages has more than around 50,000 speakers. |lnb| jrp| xnl| tog| apz| bdq| ilk| jaw| alj| mhw| emw| sqv| nbd| hqk| dnt| tqn| prq| cvl| yut| ycs| hkx| grj| lau| air| dor| tct| xjl| imr| vbc| mdu| hzq| wck| ade| hoh| ytp| ubx| glh| tnm| viu| lgk| xkl| hau| kaz| eph| sdr| btl| sth| bcf| bku| mqx|