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  • noun Plural form of Zoque.

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Examples

  • Fifty foreigners or other Mexicans (mestizos) mingled among twenty to thirty thousand Mayans representing the Tzotzils, Tzeltals, Zoques, and Tojolabls.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - fiesta in Chiapas 2007

  • Fifty foreigners or other Mexicans (mestizos) mingled among twenty to thirty thousand Mayans representing the Tzotzils, Tzeltals, Zoques, and Tojolabls.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - fiesta in Chiapas 2007

  • Current enclaves of the remaining Zoques include the tropical town of Chiapa de Corzo on the Rio Grijalva, about 12 kilometers east of Tuxtla, from which boats regularly embark, taking awed tourists through the spectacular Sumidero Canyon.

    Vistas de Copoya, Chiapas 1999

  • Current enclaves of the remaining Zoques include the tropical town of Chiapa de Corzo on the Rio Grijalva, about 12 kilometers east of Tuxtla, from which boats regularly embark, taking awed tourists through the spectacular Sumidero Canyon.

    Vistas de Copoya, Chiapas 1999

  • Zoques, Tzotzils, Tzendals, and Chols were studied in this portion of the journey.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • But out of the two hundred soldiers in the barracks, just ten turned out to be Zoques of pure blood.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • To the jail we went, but out of seventy-five prisoners fully half were Tzotzils from Chamula and not Zoques.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • The indians of the town and its immediate vicinity are Zoques.

    In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

  • Mixes, Zoques and Zapotecs united in the expectation, founded on their ancient myths and prophecies, of the arrival, some time, of men from the

    American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • The immediate neighbors of the Tzendals were the Mixes and Zoques, the former resident in the central mountains of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the latter rather in the lowlands and toward the eastern coast.

    American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

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