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Tequistlatec|teɪˈkɪstlətɛk|
Also Tequistlaˈteca, Tequistlaˈteco.
[Native name.]
(A member of) an Indian people of south-east Oaxaca, Mexico; also, the language of this people. Hence Tequistlaˈtecan, the Tequistlatec language or (later) the linguistic family of which it is the principal member; also attrib.
1891D. G. Brinton American Race 112 Quite to the south, in the mountains of Oaxaco and Guerrero, the Tequistlatecas, usually known by the meaningless term, Chontales, belong to this stem. Ibid. 148 The only specimen of their idiom which I have obtained is a vocabulary of 23 words... Provisionally, however, I give it the name of Tequistlatecan, from the principal village of the tribe. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 [Linguistic families of Middle America] Tehuantepecan, Isthmus; Tequistlatecan, Oax. 1915A. L. Kroeber in Univ. Calif. Publ. Amer. Archaeol. & Ethnol. XI. 279 (title) Serian, Tequistlatecan, and Hokan. 1929E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 140/2 Hokan proper, which includes Seri (coast of Sonora), Yuman (in Lower California) and Tequistlateco or Chontal (coast of Oaxaca). 1965Language XLI. 305 Seri and Tequistlatec, both separate branches of Hokan. Ibid., The Tequistlatecan form seems at least as similar to the Proto-Palaihnihan as the Proto-Shastan. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 894/1 Tequistlatec, Hokan-speaking Middle American Indians of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mex. |