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Personal Communication on Ayapanec Zoque
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

4

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

6-8

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

There are four speakers who are currently actively involved in efforts to preserve and teach Ayapanec Gulf Zoquean and perhaps 6-8 more residents of Ayapa who spoke the language as children and could be considered semi-speakers or rememberers. The story about "the last two speakers who do not speak to each other" is a powerful narrative but one that was never true. Alas it continues to circulate in spite of efforts by me and Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Languages to dispel it.

Year of info

2015

Location and Context

Countries

Mexico

Coordinates

18.223405, -93.111446

Location description

Ayapa, Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Ayapa, Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

367

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from A. García de León (1971). Data for the ethnic population comes from the 1960 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Mexico;

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Native Speakers Worldwide

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Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

18.162169,-93.083664

Location description

No data

Government support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~40

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

(Garza Cuarón and Lastra 1991; Wichmann 1995).

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco

Coordinates

No data

Location description

No data

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

No data

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

No data

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

No data

More on context

No data

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

No data

Elder Speakers

No data

Ethnic Population

No data

Non-monolingual speakers

No data

More about speakers

No data

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Government support

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    http://www.ethnologue.com/
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  6. LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)
    Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.
    http://llmap.org