Links:

1. •Chol bibliography
   

2. •My work on Chol
   

3. •Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
   

4. •Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Chiapas
   

5. •Ethnologue pages for Tila Chol and Tumbalá Chol
   

6. •An ethnographic report by Kathryn Josserand and Nicholas Hopkins
   

Chol is an indigenous language of Mexico spoken in the southern state of Chiapas by between 100,000 and 200,000 people. Chol is a member of the Mayan language family, which includes around 30 languages spoken in southern Mexico and northern Central America by more than 6 million people. Chol belongs to the Cholan sub-family along with Chontal, Ch’orti’, and Cholti.

The majority of Chol-speakers are subsistence farmers living in rural areas of the Chiapan counties of Tila, Palenque, Salto de Agua, Tumbalá, and Sabanilla.

I began studying the Tila dialect of Chol in 2001 and first traveled to Chiapas to do fieldwork in the Chol-speaking village of Campanario in the summer of 2002. I have returned there regularly ever since.