{"id":2032,"date":"2017-04-03T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2032"},"modified":"2017-04-04T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:45:10","slug":"ayapanec-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2032","title":{"rendered":"Ayapanec 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uudzu Tzu’ Mb\u00fc\u00fcnyi<\/em> \u2018Monkey and Thunder\u2019<\/div>\n
told by Manuel Segovia Jim\u00e9nez <\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Daniel F. Suslak<\/div>\n
Indiana University<\/div>\n
Ayapanec Gulf Zoquean (often referred to as \u201cAyapaneco\u201d) is a moribund Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by a handful of elderly residents of the town of Ayapa, Tabasco. Its speakers call it Numte Oote<\/em> \u2018the true language.\u2019 They call themselves Nyi\u2019nta\u2019<\/em> \u2018people from here\u2019 or Ndxaxjonta\u2019<\/em> \u2018people from this land.\u2019 Ayapa is located in the municipality of Jalpa de M\u00e9ndez, in a region of Tabasco known as the Chontalpa. The Chontalpa is a contact zone in which Ayapanec has been spoken side by side with Gulf Nahuatl (Uto-Aztecan) and Chontal (Mayan) for centuries both before and after the Spanish Conquest.<\/div>\n
Manuel Segovia Jim\u00e9nez told Suslak the story Uudzu Tzu\u2019 Mb\u00fc\u00fcnyi<\/em> \u2018Monkey and Thunder\u2019 on several occasions during the time they worked together. This particular version was recorded in Don Manuel\u2019s home in the summer of 2007 and transcribed and translated with his help later that fall. Don Manuel was born in 1936 and continued to speak Ayapanec every day, long after all of his friends and neighbors had given it up. In 2015 Manuel, Isidro and their group of speakers worked with INALI to produce an animated version of Monkey and Thunder featuring Ayapanec voice acting and Spanish subtitles.1<\/sup><\/a><\/div>\n
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