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Tzeltal, n. (and a.)|tsɛlˈtɑːl, ˈtsɛltɑːl; s-|
Also Tzendal, Tzental. Pl. -al, -ales |-ˈɑːlɪs|, -als.
[a. Sp., earlier also Tzendal, Sendal, name of one of the three regions of Chiapas as divided by the Spaniards; ulterior origin uncertain.]
(A member of) an Indian people inhabiting parts of southern Mexico; the Mayan language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1868C. 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. 1871L. H. Morgan Systems of Consanguinity ii. vi. 263 The Chontal language is allied to the Maya of Yucatan. It also affiliates with the Chol and Tzental of Chiapa. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States N. Amer. I. vi. 645 South of them [sc. the Chontales] in Chiapas are the Choles, Tzendales, Zotziles, [etc.]. Ibid. 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. 1927O. 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. Ibid. 325 They speak the Tzeltal language, belonging to that branch of the great Mayance stock more closely related to Maya. 1939Redfield & Villa in Contrib. Amer. Anthropol. & Hist. V. xxviii. 107 Mr. Villa..does not speak Tzeltal. Ibid. 110 Most Tzeltal communities are without beehives. 1949[see intransitivize v.]. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. 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. Ibid., At the same time, the Tzeltal people were undergoing certain adjustments of experience to new elements of language. 1979L. Campbell in Campbell & Mithun Lang. Native Amer. 902 Examination of numerals shows every other one to be Tzeltal alternating with Tojolabal. |