Chiapas Zoque

Chiapas Zoque
Chiapas Zoque
Native to	Mexico
Region	Chiapas
Native speakers	(30,000–35,000 cited 1990 census)
Language family	Mixe-Zoquean Zoquean Chiapas Zoque; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; zoc – Copainalá Zoque; zos – Francisco León Zoque; zor – Rayón Zoque
Glottolog	chia1261

Chiapas Zoque is a dialect cluster of Zoquean languages indigenous to southern Mexico (Wichmann 1995). The three varieties with ISO codes, Francisco León (about 20,000 speakers in 1990), Copainalá (about 10,000), and Rayón (about 2,000), are named after the towns they are spoken in, though residents of Francisco León were relocated after their town was buried in the eruption of El Chichón Volcano in 1982. Francisco León and Copainalá are 83% mutually intelligible according to Ethnologue.

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