alternate_names: "Ayapanec; Ayapaneco; Ayapa; Zoque, Tabasco; Zoque de Tabasco; Zoque de Ayapanec; Zoque; Nuumte Oote;",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Mixe-Zoquean; Zoquean",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "Widely reported from Daniel Suslak's research that there are only 2 speakers who don't talk to each other.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
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id:4409,
code_id:2591,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "40",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "367",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from A. García de León (1971). Data for the ethnic population comes from the 1960 census.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:4410,
code_id:2591,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "40",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:4423,
code_id:2591,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "~40",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1991",
public_comment: "(Garza Cuarón and Lastra 1991; Wichmann 1995).
",
private_comment: null,
source_id:87958,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:15941,
code_id:2591,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: null,
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:89360,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30489,
code_id:2591,
speaker_number: "1-9",
speaker_number_text: "4",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "6-8",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "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.",