Tequistlatecn.
/teɪˈkɪstlətɛk/ (A member of) an Indian people of south-east Oaxaca, Mexico; also, the language of this people.
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Tequistlatecan1891
Tequistlatec1929
1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 112 Quite to the south, in the mountains of Oaxaco and Guerrero, the Tequistlatecas, usually known by the meaningless term, Chontales, belong to this stem.
1929 E. Sapir in Encycl. Brit. V. 140/2 Hokan proper, which includes Seri (coast of Sonora), Yuman (in Lower California) and Tequistlateco or Chontal (coast of Oaxaca).
1965 Language 41 305 Seri and Tequistlatec, both separate branches of Hokan.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 894/1 Tequistlatec, Hokan-speaking Middle American Indians of the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mex.
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Tequistlaˈtecan n. the Tequistlatec language or (later) the linguistic family of which it is the principal member; also attributive.
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Seri1829
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Tequistlatecan1891
Yuman1891
Yahi1911
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Hokan > Tequistlatecan
Tequistlatecan1891
Tequistlatec1929
1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race 148 The only specimen of their idiom which I have obtained is a vocabulary of 23 words... Provisionally, however, I give it the name of Tequistlatecan, from the principal village of the tribe.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 [Linguistic families of Middle America] Tehuantepecan, Isthmus; Tequistlatecan, Oax.
1915 A. L. Kroeber (title) Serian, Tequistlatecan, and Hokan.
1965 Language 41 305 The Tequistlatecan form seems at least as similar to the Proto-Palaihnihan as the Proto-Shastan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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