Tzotzil in Mexico

Speakers

487,898

Type

Location

Tzotzil in Mexico

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tzotzil in Mexico

Size

487,898

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
Chiapas

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Chiapas state localities

Size / Number of users

Number of users

487898
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal
Year
2015

Users within total population

43.00000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

43
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Users within the reference community

Less than 1% use the language
Actual percentage
6
Source
INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

309,436
63
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

159,401
33
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Age distribution of users

19,061
4
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Generational use

Educational attainment

35
65
88,413
No education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

50
50
1,181
Early childhood education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

52
48
157,121
Primary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

54
46
54,850
Lower secondary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

59
41
19,187
Higher secondary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

61
39
7,233
Tertiary education
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand little, speak/sign none
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand some, speak/sign little
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand well, speak/sign some
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Understand all, speak/sign well
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

49
51
487,898
Understand all, speak/sign fluently
Source

INEGI, Encuesta Intercensal, 2015

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Chiapas state localities

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Stability
Decreasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion