For the historic Maya groups sometimes referred to as "Chontal", see Putún Maya. For the language, see Chontal Maya language.
For other uses, see Chontal.
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Ethnic group
Chontal
Total population
60,000
Regions with significant populations
Mexico (Tabasco)
Languages
Chontal Maya, Spanish
Religion
Catholicism, Maya religion
Related ethnic groups
Ch'ol, other Maya peoples
The Chontal Maya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for chontalli, which means "foreigner", has been applied to various ethnic groups in Mexico. The Chontal refer to themselves as the Yokot'anob or the Yokot'an, meaning "the speakers of Yoko ochoco", but writers about them refer to them as the Chontal of Centla, the Tabasco Chontal, or in Spanish, Chontales. They consider themselves the descendants of the Olmecs, and are not related to the Oaxacan Chontal.
The ChontalMaya are a Maya people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for chontalli, which means "foreigner", has been applied...
(self-denomination), also known as ChontalMaya, is a Maya language of the Cholan family spoken in 2020 by around 60,000 ChontalMaya people of the Mexican state...
Chontal (from Nahuatl languages: chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world. Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective...
the northwest of the state. Although the name refers to the state's ChontalMaya population, modern Chontalpa is a subregion of the Grijalva Region, and...
in the Toledo District. The Mexican state of Tabasco is home to the ChontalMaya. Tabasco is a Mexican state with a northern coastline fringing the Gulf...
region in the north center of the state and a major center of Tabasco's ChontalMaya population. Although the local economy is still based on agriculture...
Potonchán, a ChontalMaya town. The Maya prepared for battle but the Spanish horses and firearms quickly decided the outcome. The defeated ChontalMaya lords...
Acalan (ChontalMaya: Tamactun, Nahuatl: Acallan) was a ChontalMaya region in what is now southern Campeche, Mexico. Its capital was Itzamkanac. The people...
derived from the Classic period lowland Maya moon goddess or from Cʼabawil Ix, the Moon goddess of the ChontalMaya. Awilix was the goddess of the moon,...
purchased by a group of ChontalMaya who brought her to the town of Potonchán. It was here that Malinche started to learn the ChontalMaya language, and perhaps...
chile de monte / chile del monte / chile mosquito / mashito (by the Chontal/Maya natives in Tabasco), amash / timpinchile (in Chiapas), chilpaya (in Veracruz)...
and surrounding Chontal villages such as Tucta, Mazateupa, Oxiacaque, Tecoluta and Guatacalca, where many customs and the ChontalMaya language are preserved...
Doña Marina, translated from Nahuatl to ChontalMaya; the Spaniard Gerónimo de Aguilar translated from ChontalMaya to Spanish.[citation needed] It is important...
Chontal language may refer to: in Oaxaca, one of the Tequistlatecan languages in Tabasco, the ChontalMaya language This article includes a list of related...
neighborhoods in Teotihuacan (and other large urban areas like Tenochtitlan). The Maya civilization, influenced by other Mesoamerican civilizations, developed a...
"language" in Mesoamerica. ChontalMaya is not to be confused with the Tequistlatecan languages that are referred to as "Chontal of Oaxaca". The Ethnologue...
Tabscoob was a halach uinik (Maya ruler) of the Potonchán jurisdiction, known for leading the ChontalMaya in the Battle of Centla against Spanish forces...
of California Press. Scholes, France V.; Roys, Ralph L. (1968). The MayaChontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel: A Contribution to the History and Ethnography...
campaigns reached as far south as Tapachula in the Soconusco region and the ChontalMaya states of Xicallanco in Tabasco. Only the Aztec archenemies of Tlaxcala...
a Maya merchant from the Acalan who was elected as a regional ruler of Itzamkanac, the capital in the Acalan. His election demonstrates the Chontal Maya...
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