 tzotzil laurie bauer, 2007, the linguistics studentâs handbook, edinburgh (native name: bats'i k'op ) is a maya language spoken by the indigenous tzotzil maya people in the mexican state of chiapas. according to an inegi (instituto nacional de estadÃ­stica geografÃ­a e informÃ¡tica) 2010 census, there are 404,704 speakers of tzotzil in mexico, making it the 6th most spoken indigenous language in the country.http://www.somosprimos.com/schmal/schmal.htm most speakers are bilingual in spanish as a second language. in central chiapas, some primary schools and a secondary school are taught in tzotzil.http://www.webs.uvigo.es/weba575/ldm/resumos/tzotzil.pdf resumen gramatical tzeltal is the most closely related language to tzotzil and together they form a tzeltalan sub-branch of the mayan language family. tzeltal, tzotzil and ch'ol are the most widely spoken languages in chiapas. there are six dialects of tzotzil with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility, named after the different regions of chiapas where they are spoken: chamula, zinacantÃ¡n, san andrÃ©s larrÃ¡inzar, huixtÃ¡n, chenalhÃ³, and venustiano carranza.ethnologue report for mexico the tzotzil variant of san bartolomÃ© de los llanos, in the venustiano carranza region, is unique for having two phonemic tones.sarles, harvey b. 1966. a descriptive grammar of the tzotzil language as spoken in san bartolomÃ© de los llanos, chiapas, mÃ©xico. ph.d. dissertation, university of chicago. centro de lengua, arte y literatura indÃ­gena (celali) suggested in 2002 that the name of the language (and the ethnicity) should be spelled tsotsil, rather than tzotzil. native speakers and writers of the language are picking up the habit of using s instead of z.  ==phonology== ===vowels=== tzotzil has five vowels. o and u fluctuate between rounded and unrounded, some have proposed spelling the unrounded vowels as Ã¶ and Ã¼ respectively. {| class="wikitable" |- ! !front !central !back |-align=center !close |i  || || u  |-align=center !mid |e  || || o {{ipa|[o
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