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	Tzotzil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tzotzil Maya of the central highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas are an indigenous group, the direct descendants of the Classic Maya civilization.
		The Tzotzil language, like Tzeltal and Ch'ol, is descended from the proto-Ch'ol spoken in the late classic period at sites such as Palenque and Yaxchilan.
		The Tzotzil were for centuries exploited by Europeans as laborers on coffee and sugar plantations, particularly in the central valleys of the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tzotzil (313 words)

	Pantelho
		Indigenous Tzotzil Maya share the municipio with an equal number of Tzeltal Maya and a small group of ladinos, the latter two groups represent both recent immigrants and long term residents.
		The Tzotzil are concentrated in the cabecera or headtown and a few other hamlets on the south side of river.
		Tzotzil women are less likely to work in the fields and more likely to spend time on textile manufacture.
	www.uwosh.edu /faculty_staff/brownp/Pantelho.htm (3163 words)

	Lords of the Clouds
		he Tzotzil are a group of people that for centuries have conserved their customs in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
		On the contrary, with time, the Tzotzil merged catholic saints and virgins with attributes of pre-Hispanic deities, all of which converged and flowed in a series of beliefs that have given head aches to many of the representatives of the Catholic Church.
		It is said that if a Tzotzil mistreats his or her family, damages the forest or fails to follow the religious hierarchy (a service all Tzotzil must carry out), he or she loose part of their chulel and become depressed or have bad moods.
	www.mayadiscovery.com /ing/life/tzotzil.htm (1434 words)

	[No title]
		This paper suggests that in Tzotzil, agent focus verbs are INVER SE, in the sense of Algonquian linguistics, and that their distribution is determined by the relative OBVIATION status of agent and patient.
		Tzotzil AF verbs are subject to the further restriction that they occur only in clauses in which the agent is extracted.
		\par \tab \par 1.\tab Tzotzil AF Verbs\par The AF verb in Tzotzil is derived by suffixation of -{\ul on}, one of the reconstructed proto-Mayan suffixes.
	people.ucsc.edu /~aissen/inverse.rtf (8065 words)

	MEXICO BP-II.17 - Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge
		Groups of Tzotzil women from different villages are collaborating in the fleece-grading exercises with sheep scientists from the University of Chiapas.
		In Tzotzil culture sheep are sacred; they are never killed or eaten, and they are given names and considered to be the ritual children of women.
		The Tzotzil women are the experts, and the sheep scientists are the apprentices.
	www.unesco.org /most/bpik17-2.htm (2486 words)

	Tzotzil Maya
		The habitat of the Tzotzil is highland, with mountains, volcanic outcroppings, and valley lowlands.
		The particular demography of the highlands is shaped by the movement of the Tzotziles and the Tzeltales.
		The Tzotzil are one of the indigenous groups represented in the Zapatista movement (the most numerous one, after the Tzeltal), fighting for their rights.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/4/alx78.shtml (1053 words)

	Tzeltal language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tzotzil is the most closely related language to Tzeltal and together they form a Tzeltalan Proper sub-branch of the Mayan language family.
		Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Chol are the most widely-spoken languages in Chiapas.
		Unlike Ch'ol, which features split-ergativity, Tzeltal and Tzotzil are fully morphologically ergative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tzeltal (154 words)

	Tzotzil communities of the highland of Chiapas, huipils and embroidered blouses. Zapatista homeland.
		Tzotzil communities of the highland of Chiapas, huipils and embroidered blouses.
		According to Mexico's 2000 census, approximately 292,000 people (over the age of five) spoke the Tzotzil language which is known in Tzotzil as ´"Batsil K'op." The Tzotzil language (with six major dialects) belongs to the Tzeltalan subdivision of the Mayan language family and is closely related to its linguistic cousin Tzeltal.
		Tzotzil men who are performing year long "cargos" of voluntary service to the community generally reside in the centro on a temporary basis, then return to their parajes after the cargos are completed.
	www.mexicantextiles.com /grouppages/tzotzil.html (611 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 2003 \| The native sheep of Chiapas: A
		Several foreign breeds were introduced and the outcome of such efforts was always the same: the exotic breeds failed to adapt to the local environment and the availability of native forages, and the animals died in a matter of weeks.
		More importantly, the Tzotzil women did not like the fleeces of these exotic animals because they could not be processed into woollen garments using their traditional spinning and weaving techniques.
		Tzotzil shepherdesses must be credited for maintaining their sheep breeds that would be extinct by now if they had not systematically opposed official interventions aimed to dilute the genes of their ‘true sheep’.
	www.grain.org /seedling/?id=221 (1998 words)

	SHEEP: St. John the Baptist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		For the Tzotzil people of Chiapas, Mexico, the holiday is a blend of Catholic and indigenous traditions which center around a celebration of sheep.
		And nowadays, the Indians in the Tzotzil area consider St John the Baptist as the ritual shepherd of all sheep.
		And Tzotzils offer things to St John the Baptist every 24th of June in the form of candles and insence, flowers and ribbons to be blesssed by St. John.
	www.pulseplanet.com /archive/Jun99/1909.html (271 words)

	Chiapans regroup at scene of massacre - Jan. 23, 1998
		Restraining tears, Vásquez described how gunmen killed nine of her family members who were praying with other Tzotziles at a makeshift chapel on a muddy shelf in the hamlet of Acteal.
		Reporters and camera technicians, who had crowded the Tzotziles as they lit candles for their dead, were invited to drink coffee before departing.
		Instead, the words of a Tzotzil woman displaced from Los Chorros, where PRI paramilitary groups are said to hold training camps, best reveal the impact of the last few decades of the work of the Catholic church.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives2/1998a/012398/012398a.htm (3507 words)

	Belly laughing with the goddess of all living things
		According to Robert M. Laughlin, a curator of Mesoamerican and Caribbean ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, Tzotzil is grounded in the senses of sight and sound and therefore richly descriptive.
		Tzotzil words are concrete not abstract, and concepts are expressed pictorially using word combinations.
		Laughlin, the author of two Tzotzil dictionaries, derives many of his definitions from a colonial Spanish/Tzotzil dictionary he found in the vaults of his alma mater, Princeton University.
	www.freenewmexican.com /news/30157.html (1562 words)

	TRANS Nr. 15: John B. Haviland (Ciesas, Mexico / Reed College, US): Indians, languages, and linguistic accommodation in ...
		Here the areas in which Tzotzil, Tseltal, and Chol are spoken are shown as partially overlapping and partially contiguous colored areas on a map of the southeastern part of Mexico, principally the state of Chiapas.
		Instead of simply saying "candle" - the Tzotzil word is kantela, a clear loan from the Spanish candela (no longer in use in Chiapas Spanish, where instead the modern word is vela) - she produces a standard doublet, combining the Tzotzil toj 'pine' (as in 'pine tree') with the loanword kantela.
		In Zinacantec Tzotzil this is suffixed to the verb stem, whereas in Chalchihuitán it is prefixed.
	www.inst.at /trans/15Nr/06_1/haviland15.htm (4719 words)

	Mayan Family
		Like many of the language families of Mexico, the languages of this subfamily contain some dialectal variation, especially Ch'ol and Tzotzil.
		The Tzotzil people recognize five major dialects of the Tzotzil language: San Miguel Huixtán, San Pedro Chenalhó, San Juan Chamula, San Andrés Larráinzar, and Zinacantán.
		In each dialect, others who speak the same dialect are refered to as jchi'iltic 'our companions' when talking to each other and as jchi'iltac when talking to people from other dialects.
	www.sil.org /mexico/maya/00i-maya.htm (1263 words)

	Latest News 176 -- Mexico
		A Tzotzil woman holds a copy of the Tzotzil: Chamula Bible at its launch on 25 November 2001.
		Boxes of Tzotzil: Chamula Bibles are stacked ready to be distributed at the launch on 25 November 2001.
		These Tzotzil women are happy to have received copies of the Tzotzil: Chamula Bible at its launch on 25 November 2001.
	www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest176-mexico.html (768 words)

	Chamula & Zinacantan, Mexico - Wander the Planet .net
		Chamula is inhabited by the Tzotziles who speak Tzotzil, a language of the Maya family.
		Religion is a mixture of Catholism and native Tzotzil.
		Zinacantan is a Tzotzil Maya village outside of San Cristobal.
	www.wandertheplanet.net /Mexico/chamula.htm (389 words)

	Collier, George 1975 Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Higland Chiapas. Reviewed by Byron ...
		Collier, George 1975 Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Higland Chiapas.
		All of these interviews sound fantastic; but alas, not much of their individually-based specificity on how the Tzotzil view their landscape actually made it into the book.
		On Page 16 "In the view of this book, Tzotzil tradition is an ethnic phenomenon that is fundamentally SOCIAL, rather than CULTURAL, and that has an ecological basis" (with "ecology" writ large as NICHE).
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/Anthro/GSN/mayabib/collier.html (3019 words)

	WORLD REPORT, June 1998 — Number 331
		The Tzotzil people had come in droves from neighbouring towns, farms and villages, to celebrate the arrival of their Bible, the first Bible in Tzotzil.
		The Tzotzil: Chenalho Bible is an intercon- fessional translation, which was produced by the Bible Society of Mexico and supported by the UBS financially and through consultancy.
		The Tzotzil Bible follows Bibles in Chol and Maya, and the Old Testament in Tzeltal, all of which have been published in the last few years by the Bible Society of Mexico.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_331/331_amer.htm (2815 words)

	UMass Linguistics Department Spring 2005 Course Descriptions
		For example, Tzotzil, a language spoken in Central America, differs dramatically from English in a whole range of ways.
		Tzotzil can express in a single word what it takes English an entire sentence to say.
		And yet, both Tzotzil and English convey information by organizing sounds along guidelines that all languages seem to obey.
	www.umass.edu /linguist/courses/2005/S05_course_desc.html (1461 words)

	Research Activities
		A standard form of presentation (in Tzeltal, Tzotzil, and Spanish) will be followed throughout, providing information on illness treated, ingredients of formulary, culturally attributed relative “strength” of the medication, action of the remedy, details of modes of preparation and application, and conditions for care of patient when undergoing medication, if applicable.
		It is envisaged that a statement on pharmacological properties of the remedy, based on a survey of the literature and, eventually, experimental data derived directly from bioassay work will be included.
		In addition to this regional survey, we aim to make available popular manuals on Tzeltal and Tzotzil ethnomedicine and ethnobotany to be used in the Maya communities of the Highlands of Chiapas.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~obberlin/research.html (1326 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Laughlin, Beware the Great Horned Serpent!
		Turning now to the Tzotzil translation of the Proclamation of 1812, a close examination of the text showed that it was sprinkled with vocabulary from the neighboring language, Tzeltal.
		If the Tzotzil proclamation was read in the churches, if it won the Indian parishioners' loyalty to the Metropolis and gave them a new sense of self-respect, for this we have no evidence.
		While there are Tzotzil word lists, grammars, catechisms, and sermons from the 19th century, this is a unique survival of Tzotzil narrative from that period.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlaubep.html (4968 words)

	Jorge Hankamer WebFest
		Under this construal, the transitive verb slapoj is separated from its internal argument tzekil by the verb ikom, as diagrammed in (2).
		Nowhere else in Tzotzil is an internal argument separated from the verb which licenses it by a verb to which it bears no relation.
		Translating (8) as they returned wearing their hats, in line with the analysis in (2), does not account for the fact that (8) is appropriate only if the men set out in the first place with their hats, i.e.
	ling.ucsc.edu /Jorge/aissen.html (1528 words)

	Demographic Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Figures 2 and 3 show comparable population distributions fro Tseltal and Chol, with total official populations of speakers 5 years of age and older at around 280 thousand for Tseltal, and over 140 thousand for Chol.
		Two obvious conclusions can be drawn from the census statistics: (1) an important proportion of the Tzotzil, Tseltal, and Chol “ethnic groups” now lives in townships traditionally considered “not Indian”; and (2) there are many communities (or at least political entities at the level of
		Specifically, there are communities with a large number of speakers of both Tzotzil and Tseltal, and others with significant populations of speakers of both Tseltal and Chol.
	academic.reed.edu /linguistics/Demographics/DemographicProfile.htm (348 words)

	Jihad Watch: Islam Gains Toehold in Mexico's Zapatista Country
		Beside the mosque, a Tzotzil woman dressed in colorful Indian garb and known by the Muslim name Karima washes clothes in a stream near ramshackle wooden houses.
		Hence, among the Tzotzil Indians, people who would fight against "oppression" from Mexico City, willingly take on such absurdly foreign names, as "Muhammad" and "Karima." And that is the first generation.
		This should be regarded not as a matter of a ministry, because these people are not regarded so much as having their souls saved, where they must undergo some real training and demonstrate some understanding.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/004812.php (2948 words)

	Journal of Latin American Anthropology - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The basic idea is that the original proclamation would have made little sense to Tzotzil listeners, so the anonymous friar decided to rephrase it in terms he thought the Indians would understand.
		What ostensibly begins as ethnohistory in the final analysis is the story of Spanish politics, their Latin American counterpart, and the general air of politicking and hysteria that filled Guatemala during the French occupation of the Iberian peninsula.
		Despite the author’s often spry writing style, too much reads like the sort of diplomatic history that was fashionable fifty years ago, particularly when Laughlin insists on minute paraphrasings of almost everything in the correspondence he explores (“The bishop then wrote.
	www.fiu.edu /~jlaa/0902book5.htm (770 words)

	Unmasking the Maya: Resources
		Perils of the Soul: The World View of a Tzotzil Indian, New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
		Fields of the Tzotzil: The Ecological Basis of Tradition in Highland Chiapas, Austin: University of Texas Press.
		Laughlin, Robert M. "The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán," Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 19, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
	www.mnh.si.edu /anthro/maya/resources1.html (1136 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003051079
		As the Mexican war for independence raged and Spain struggled to free itself from Napoleon's yoke, a friar in Chiapas translated into the Tzotzil Mayan language an 1812 proclamation aimed at inspiring loyalty to Spain among the inhabitants of its colonies.
		It is of extraordinary value both as a source on the Tzotzil language and as a grass-roots commentary on Spanish policy at the end of the colonial period.
		As the Tzotzils and other Mayas of Chiapas have recently claimed a place on the stage of world events, this look at their role in an earlier period of conflict will be especially welcome.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/texas041/2003051079.html (286 words)

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