Mazatecn.adj.
/ˈmazətɛk/, U.S. /ˈmæzəˈtɛk/ A. n.
1. A member of an American Indian people of northern Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > peoples of Central America
Chichimeca1578
Miskito1697
Tiwa1710
Nahuatlaca1775
Otomi1782
Aztec1787
Mazahua1787
Mixteca1787
Totonac1787
Zapotec1797
Chichimec1809
Quiché1823
Mayo1829
Seri1829
Mixtec1852
Olmec1852
Mogollon1855
Mimbres1859
Yaqui1861
Cuna1868
Tzeltal1868
Nahuatl1873
Huastec1874
Tarahumara1874
Tlapanec1874
Bribri1875
Nahua1875
Mangue1876
Mazatec1878
Subtiaba1891
Tequistlatec1891
Trique1891
Nahuatlan1897
Huichol1900
Mixtecan1900
Tarascan1931
Mixe–Zoque1957
Mixteco1972
Garifuna1977
Mixean1982
Garinagu1983
Mixe–Zoquean1989
1878 A. H. Keane in H. W. Bates Central Amer., W. Indies, & S. Amer. 482 The uncivilised Mexican tribes, not included in the Aztec group, admit of no special classification. Taking them in their order, from north to south, the most important are—Sonora and Sinaloa..Zacatecas..Chiapas, Oajaca. Mazatecs.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mazatec, one of a tribe of Zapotecan Indians of northeastern Oaxaca, Mexico. They raise silk and are noted for gorgeous silken fabrics.
1962 D. H. Hymes in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 111 The Mazatecs of Mexico.
1962 D. H. Hymes in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 129 Neighboring dialects may differ, as when one group of Mazatec abstract the tones of their language for a whistled code, while the Soyaltepec Mazatec do not.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 728/1 The Mazatec are Roman Catholic with syncretistic elements.
2. The Oto-Manguean language spoken by this people.In form Mazatecs in quot. 1878.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Central Amerindian languages > Oto-Manguean languages
Otomi1845
Mazahua1877
Mazatec1878
Chichimec1882
Mangue1886
Chichimeca1900
Otomian1900
Trique1900
Oto-Manguean1940
1878 A. H. Keane in H. W. Bates Central Amer., W. Indies, & S. Amer. 521/1 Mazatecs..In N. Oajaca, Mexico; a Miztec dialect.
1892 D. G. Brinton in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 30 37 I think that the above comparison will leave no doubt but that the Mazatec is affiliated with..these stocks.
1925 E. Sapir in Amer. Anthropologist 27 432 Chipanec, which is closely related to Mazatec and Chorotega-Mangue, has analogous changes.
1942 Amer. Antiquity 8 184 Lexicographical similarities favor the inclusion of Mazatec in the Popoloca group.
1967 S. C. Gudschinsky How to learn Unwritten Lang. ii. 19 Transitive relationship is expressed in Mazatec by a transitive verb followed by a noun object and a noun subject.
1992 Cultural Survival Q. Fall 17/2 So far, 52 people speaking a total of 12 Mexican languages have trained at Oaxaca. They have produced works in Ñähñu, Mixtec, Mixe, Zapotec, Chinantec, and Mazatec.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of or relating to the Mazatecs or their language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > Oto-Manguean
Mixtecan1787
Otomi1843
Trique1891
Mazatec1892
Otomian1911
Zapotecan1922
Oto-Manguean1958
Mazahua1965
1892 D. G. Brinton in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 30 31 The historian Herrera gives the following description of some of their rites: ‘In the Province of Teutitlan, where the Mazatec language is spoken..they were accustomed to flay the sacrificial victims.’
1958 K. L. Pike in E. Sivertsen Proc. 8th Internat. Congr. Linguists 769 One of the Mazatec dialects.
1967 S. C. Gudschinsky How to learn Unwritten Lang. ii. 22 Mazatec possessive phrases are quite different from English.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 728/1 The Mazatec language is most closely related to Chocho, Ixcatec, and Popoloca.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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