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Meaning of "Mixe-Zoque" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MIXE-ZOQUE

Mixe-Zoque  [ˈmɪksˈzɒk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIXE-ZOQUE

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Mixe-Zoque is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MIXE-ZOQUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mixe–Zoque languages

The Mixe–Zoque languages constitute a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe–Zoquean languages as official: Mixe or ayook with 188,000 speakers, Zoque or o'de püt with 88,000 speakers, and the Popoluca languages of which some are Mixean and some Zoquean with 69,000 speakers. However the internal diversity in each of these groups is great and the Ethnologue counts 17 different languages, and the current classification of Mixe–Zoquean languages by Wichmann counts 12 languages and 11 dialects. Extinct languages classified as Mixe–Zoquean include Tapachultec, formerly spoken along the southeast coast of Chiapas.

Definition of Mixe-Zoque in the English dictionary

The definition of Mixe-Zoque in the dictionary is a member of an American Indian people of Mexico. Other definition of Mixe-Zoque is any of the languages of this people.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MIXE-ZOQUE

Mitterrand
mittimus
Mitty
Mitty-like
Mittyesque

WORDS THAT END LIKE MIXE-ZOQUE

antique
baroque
boutique
breloque
clique
colloque
equivoque
filioque
marque
Martinique
monocoque
Mozambique
politique
pratique
roque
technique
toque
torque
tu quoque
unique

Synonyms and antonyms of Mixe-Zoque in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Mixe-Zoque» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MIXE-ZOQUE

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The translations of Mixe-Zoque from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Mixe-Zoque» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

龙头, Zoque
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Mixe - Zoque
570 millions of speakers

English

Mixe-Zoque
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

MIXE - Zoque
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميكسي - Zoque
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Михе- соке
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Mixe - Zoque
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Mixe,-Zoque
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Mixe - Zoque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mixe-Zoque
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mixe- Zoque
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミヘ族、ソケ族
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

MIXE - Zoque
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mixe-Zoque
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Mixe - Zoque
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மிச்சி Zoque
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिक्के-झोक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mixe-Zoque
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Mixe - Zoque
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Mixe - Zoque
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Михея -соку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Mixe - Zoque
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Mixe - Zoque
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Mixe - Zoque
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Mixe - zoque
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Mixe - Zoque
5 millions of speakers

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The term «Mixe-Zoque» is used very little and occupies the 193.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MIXE-ZOQUE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Mixe-Zoque

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIXE-ZOQUE»

Discover the use of Mixe-Zoque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Mixe-Zoque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vocabulario Mixe de Totontepec
Aunque se ha publicado bastante material lingüístico sobre el Mixe-Zoque- Popoluca durante los últimos veinte años, en su mayoría por investigadores del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, existen aûn muchas lagunas en nuestro conocimiento ...
Alvin y Louise C. Schoenhals
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The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
... Cuitlatec falls unpredictably on either of the last two syllables in the word; there are few languages in Mesoamerica in which the placement of stress is completely unpredictable. 3. 1 .2 Mixe-Zoque Some Zoque languages have a consonant ...
Jorge A. Suarez, 1983
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A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the ...
Mixe-Zoque The Mixe-Zoque languages are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Mixe has around 90,000 speakers, Zoque has some 60,000 speakers, and the Popoluca languages, of which some are Mixean and ...
Harry van der Hulst, Rob Goedemans, Ellen van Zanten, 2010
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Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An ...
Mixe-Zoque Mixe-Zoquean groups probably moved into Mesoamerica from the north. However, they were in approximately their current position—the region of the Olmec cultural florescence—by the time of agricultural beginnings in the area,  ...
Susan Toby Evans, David L. Webster, 2013
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Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage
Kaufman later mentions cacao as a loan from Mixe-Zoque into Huastec, a Mayan language spoken in the Mexican states of San Luis Postosí and Veracruz [11]. He asserts that kakaw + “cacao” later becomes “peanut” as in the local Aztec word ...
Louis E. Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro, 2011
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Language in the Americas
Mexican: Mixe-Zoque: Sayula wa?n. Oregon: Siuslaw winu 'be willing.' 207 SELL Gulf: Atakapa jik. Mexican: Mixe-Zoque 'ja?k. 208 SEW Gulf: Natchez bo:x. Zuni pik(-ia) (passive). 209 SHADOW Gulf: Atakapa iSk. Plateau: Molala iskai 'night.
Joseph Harold Greenberg, 1987
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Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Miwok-Costanoan => Penutian Mixe => Mixe-Zoque Mixe-Zoque Language group of Central America with eight languages; the largest are Mixe (about 78,000 speakers) and Zoque (about 38,000 speakers) in southern Mexico. Characteristics: ...
Hadumod Bussmann, Kerstin Kazzazi, Gregory Trauth, 2006
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Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the ...
... speakers were bearers of the archaeological Izapa culture and probably originated the inscriptions on the La Mojarra stela. Campbell (1988) attributes the Mesoamerican calendar and hieroglyphic writing to the Mixe Zoque civilization.
Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, Darrell T. Tyron, 1996
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Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text: Dedicated ...
3.7 'Natural' data from five mixe-Zoque language groups by unknown splits Naturally, we have no model here and start by evaluating the data of Cysouw et al. (2005: Table 1), which we combine as arithmetic mean according to the groups5 ...
Gabriel Altmann, Peter Grzybek, Reinhard Köhler, 2007
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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
... 31 Trique (Copala) Otomanguean dS 61 54 33 Zapotec (JuaYez) Otomanguean dS 61 49 30 Cakchiquel (1956-1981) Mayan dS 60 67 40 Totonac (La Sierra dialect) Totonacan dS 58 36 21 Popoluca (Oluta) Mixe-Zoque dS 58 45 26 Tzeltal ...
Cecil H. Brown Professor of Anthropology Northern Illinois University, 1999

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIXE-ZOQUE»

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New assessment of recently found Mayan pyramid puts it up among …
... Chaahk was the ruler with greater politic and hegemonic power in Tonina, a city known in its times as Po' (white in Mixe-Zoque language).”. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
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Discovery of one of Mesoamerica's oldest known ancient pyramidal …
... Chiapa de Corzo and west-central Chiapas were home to the Zoque, descendants of the Mixe-zoque speaking Olmec who inhabited the Gulf ... «Popular Archaeology, Jul 15»
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The race to save Mexico's dying languages
Ayapaneco is part of the Mixe-Zoque linguistic family, some of whose contributions to the global lexicon include the word cacao (cocoa, ... «EL PAÍS in English, Sep 14»

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