Tzeltaln.adj.
/tsɛlˈtɑːl//ˈtsɛltɑːl//sɛlˈtɑːl//ˈsɛltɑːl/ (A member of) an Indian people inhabiting parts of southern Mexico; the Mayan language of this people. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1578
Miskito1697
Tiwa1710
Nahuatlaca1775
Otomi1782
Aztec1787
Mazahua1787
Mixteca1787
Totonac1787
Zapotec1797
Chichimec1809
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Mixtec1852
Olmec1852
Mogollon1855
Mimbres1859
Yaqui1861
Cuna1868
Tzeltal1868
Nahuatl1873
Huastec1874
Tarahumara1874
Tlapanec1874
Bribri1875
Nahua1875
Mangue1876
Mazatec1878
Subtiaba1891
Tequistlatec1891
Trique1891
Nahuatlan1897
Huichol1900
Mixtecan1900
Tarascan1931
Mixe–Zoque1957
Mixteco1972
Garifuna1977
Mixean1982
Garinagu1983
Mixe–Zoquean1989
the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [adjective] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1726
Aztec1787
Miskito1789
Chichimec1811
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Otomi1843
Mimbres1856
Nahuatl1858
Yaqui1861
Zapotec1861
Tzeltal1868
Tlapanec1874
Mixtec1875
Bribri1876
Mangue1876
Nahua1876
Nahuatlaca1877
Mixe1888
Trique1891
Mazatecan1892
Subtiaba1892
Huichol1900
Cuna1905
Mixteca1911
Subtiaban1911
Tarascan1911
Tarahumara1912
Zapotecan1922
Tzotzil1939
Mixe–Zoquean1940
Tiwa1950
Mixteco1959
Kekchi1960
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Penutian > of specific Penutian languages
Creek1725
Choctaw1796
Tsimshian1836
Muskogee1868
Tzeltal1868
Yuki1875
Klamath1881
Takelma1882
Zoque1891
Zoque–Mixe1893
Modoc1907
Yawelmani1907
Sahaptin1921
Totonacan1933
Tzotzil1939
Molale1966
Quichean1968
Mixean1977
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Mexican Penutian > Mayan > Mayan languages
Kekchi1823
Quiché1823
Huastec1845
Tzeltal1868
Tzotzil1874
1868 C. H. Berendt in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1867 426 I visited the ruins of Palenque, and..was enabled..to collect vocabularies of the Putum and Tzental languages, both spoken in Chiapas.
1870 L. H. Morgan Syst. Consanguinity ii. vi. 263 The Chontal language is allied to the Maya of Yucatan. It also affiliates with the Chol and Tzental of Chiapa.
1874 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States I. vi. 645 South of them [sc. the Chontales] in Chiapas are the Choles, Tzendales, Zotziles, [etc.].
1875 H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. x. 760 Most..are related to..the Maya, of which a dialect called the Tzendal is said to be the oldest language spoken in any of these countries.
1927 O. la Farge in Tribes & Temples II. xv. 326 The language itself has been variously named Cendal, Tzendal, Cendales, Tzental, and Tzeltal. I have taken the latter form, as it most nearly represents the Indians' own form, ts'eltal, varied in careless speech to tceltal.
1927 O. la Farge in Tribes & Temples II. xv. 325 They speak the Tzeltal language, belonging to that branch of the great Mayance stock more closely related to Maya.
1939 Redfield & Villa in Contrib. Amer. Anthropol. & Hist. 5 xxviii. 107 Mr. Villa..does not speak Tzeltal.
1939 Redfield & Villa in Contrib. Amer. Anthropol. & Hist. 5 xxviii. 110 Most Tzeltal communities are without beehives.
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iii. 68 In Tzeltal there is an intransitivizing verbal infix -h-.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating x. 239 Among the Tzeltals in Southern Mexico the coming of missionaries..resulted in the conversion of many hundreds of persons, who responded, in their eagerness to describe their spiritual experiences, by creating many new phrases.
1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating x. 239 At the same time, the Tzeltal people were undergoing certain adjustments of experience to new elements of language.
1979 L. Campbell in L. Campbell & M. Mithun Langs. Native Amer. 902 Examination of numerals shows every other one to be Tzeltal alternating with Tojolabal.
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