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Totonac|təʊtəˈnæk|
Also † Totonaca.
[ad. Sp. Totonaca, f. Nahuatl Totonacatl, pl. Totonaca.]
An Indian people of east central Mexico; a member of this people. Also, their language. Also attrib.
1787C. Cullen tr. Clavigero's Hist. Mexico II. viii. 18 Five men..said in Mexican..that they were of the nation of the Totonacas, and sent by the lord of Chempoalla. 1852B. Mayer Mexico I. iii. 29 The Tlascalans were not so easily won as his allies, the Totonacs. 1900Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. VIII. 187 Some of the..Totonac women in the Plaza..are really gay with hair ribbons. 1908F. Starr In Indian Mexico xx. 245 In Tlaxco, a small village in this municipio, four idioms are spoken—Aztec, Otomi, Totonac and Tepehua. 1940F. Johnson in C. L. Hay et al. Maya & their Neighbors vi. 109 The area on the map in which Totonac was spoken remains practically identical with that originally drawn by Orozco y Berra. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 794 Along the Gulf Coast in Tabasco nd Vera Cruz, a series of peoples known as Olmec, Totonac, and Huastec, in order from south to north. 1977T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. 153 The Totonac..were the first to become allies of Cortez when he disembarked on the coast of Veracruz and set out to conquer Mexico. 1977Language LIII. 262/2 The publication of these volumes..makes Totonac an unusually well-documented language.
Hence Totoˈnacan a., of or pertaining to the family of languages that comprises Totonac and Tepehua.
1933J. E. Thompson Mexico before Cortez viii. 259 The Tajin pyramid is in Totonacan linguistic territory. 1940F. Johnson in Maya & their Neighbors vi. 109 (heading) Totonacan family [of languages]. 1977T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas II. 153 There are..well over 130,000 speakers of Totonacan dialects in Veracruz and Puebla. |