Chontal
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Chontal (from Nahuatl languages: chontalli, 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world.
Pre-Conquest Maya region[edit]
- Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of Maya during the Late Classic and Postclassic Eras
Mexico[edit]
Guerrero[edit]
- Chontal of Guerrero (es), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero
Tabasco[edit]
- Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco
- Chontal Maya language, spoken by the Chontal Maya people
Oaxaca[edit]
- Chontal of Oaxaca, another name for the Tequistlatecan languages
- Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, another name for the Huamelula language
- Highland Oaxaca Chontal, a language spoken by some indigenous people in the state
Nicaragua[edit]
- Chontales Department, one of fifteen departments in Nicaragua
- Chontal of Nicaragua (es), the ethnicity for which the department is named after