Chocho people

Chocho people: "Chochos" redirects here. For other uses, see Chocho.

Chochos
(Ngiwa)
Total population

?

Regions with significant populations

Oaxaca ?

Languages

Spanish, Chocho

Religion

Catholicism

The Chochos (formerly Chochones; Chocho: Ngiwa) are an indigenous people of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Language

Their traditional language, Chocho, is a member of the Popolocan branch of the Oto-Manguean language family. As of 1998^[update], it had 770 speakers.^[1] Chochos also speak Spanish, the dominant language of Mexico.

The Chocho name for themselves is Ngiwa. The Spanish and English names "Chochos" and "Chochones" are derived from the Nahuatl exonym Chochon (plural Chochontin). The Mixtec term for the Chochos is tay tocuii (also spelled tocuij or tocuiy).

Notes

^ Ethnologue, 15th ed.

References

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Chochotec". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed. ed.). Dallas: SIL. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=coz.

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