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Tzotzil, n. (and a.)|ˈtsəʊtsɪl, tsəʊtˈsɪl; s-|
Also Zotzil. Pl. -il, -iles |-ˈiːlɪs|, -ils.
[a. Sp., ad. Tzotzil soćil bat people.]
(A member of) an Indian people inhabiting parts of southern Mexico; the Mayan language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1875[see Tzeltal]. 1927O. La Farge in Tribes & Temples II. xv. 326 Their [the Bachajons'] immediate neighbors of the Highlands are the Zotzil. [They] speak a language differentiated from Tzeltal only by a shift of a, e, and b to Zotzil o, i, and m. 1939Redfield & Villa in Contrib. Amer. Anthropol. & Hist. V. xxvii. 110 Wheat is..grown in the Tzotzil towns of Chamula and Huistán. 1940F. Johnson in Maya & their Neighbors vi. 108 The Chañabal, and Tzotzil Languages. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. ix. 218 The same period may be spoken of in very different ways in diverse languages; e.g. the Biblical ‘tenth hour’ (or 4 P.M.) is called..‘the sun is astride the mountain’ (Tzotzil) and ‘time for untying the oxen’ (Bolivian Quechua). 1977Language LIII. 464 Tzotzil is a Mayan language with more than 120,000 speakers, all living in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. |