Tzotzil (English spelling)

Japanese: ツォツィル - つぉつぃる（英語表記）Tzotzil

An indigenous Mayan-speaking people living in about 20 villages in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. They have a population of about 280,000, almost half of whom also speak Spanish. In addition to cultivating corn, beans, and pumpkins using slash-and-burn agriculture, they also produce coffee and bananas in the warm valleys, and apples and potatoes in the cold mountain regions. Each village has its own cultural type and social organization, and there are restrictions on endogamy. Villagers live in numerous subdivisions scattered throughout the village area, and gather in the central settlement where the church, town hall, and shops are located almost exclusively on Sundays, when markets are held, or on festival days; this village structure is thought to be a tradition dating back to the Classic Maya civilization.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

メキシコ南部チアパス州の約20の村落に分住するマヤ語系の先住民。人口約28万で，そのほぼ半分はスペイン語も併用する。トウモロコシ，豆，カボチャを焼畑農法によって栽培するほか，温暖な谷間ではコーヒーやバナナ，寒冷な山岳地ではリンゴやジャガイモも生産する。各村落は固有の文化型と社会組織をもち，内婚規制がある。村人は村域内に散在する多数の部落に住み，教会，役場，商店のある中心集落に集まるのは，市の立つ日曜日か祭礼日にほぼ限られており，このような村落構造は，古典期マヤ文明以来の伝統と考えられている。

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