{"id":2053,"date":"2017-04-03T16:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2053"},"modified":"2017-04-04T13:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T13:57:39","slug":"ocotepec-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanlinguistics.org\/?page_id=2053","title":{"rendered":"Ocotepec 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Te\u02b9 Kak Yajkti Te\u02b9 Tsi\u02b9<\/em> \u2018The Jaguar and The Opossum\u2019<\/div>\n
told by Francisco Morales Ram\u00edrez<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Rom\u00e1n de la Cruz Morales<\/div>\n
CIESAS<\/div>\n
Ocotepec Zoque is part of the dialect chain of Chiapas Zoque dialect chain (Wonderly 1949), spoken in the municipality of the same name located in the Northeastern part of the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Ocotepec Zoque speakers identify themselves as \u02b9odep\u00e4t<\/em>, literally \u2018man (pon<\/em>) of words (\u0294one<\/em>)\u2019. To refer to the language, speakers use the term \u02b9odetsame<\/em>, which comes from \u0294on e tsam e<\/em> \u2018speech (\u0294on e<\/em>) say (tsam e<\/em>)\u2019, literally meaning \u2018language of the word\u2019. The \u02b9odep\u00e4t<\/em> have a great repository of oral tradition that is still transmitted today to younger generations from grandparents to grandchildren and parents to children in family settings.<\/div>\n
The story Te\u02b9 Kak Yajkti Te\u02b9 Tsi\u02b9<\/em> \u2018The Jaguar and The Opossum\u2019 is narrated by Francisco Morales Ram\u00edrez. At the time the text was recorded in July 2014, Mr. Morales was 84 years old. In this story he portrays the opossum as a small and wily character, and the jaguar as strong but na\u00efve.<\/div>\n
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