zoquehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoque_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZoque, n.
First published 1986; not fully revised

Zoquenoun (& adjective)

  1. 1891–
    Any of a group of Central American Indigenous languages of the Mixe-Zoquean family; this group of languages collectively. Also attributive or as adj.
    1. 1891
      Zoque linguistic stock.
      D. G. Brinton, American Race iii. vi. 144 (heading)
    2. 1911
      Zoque.
      C. Thomas & J. R. Swanton, Indian Languages of Mexico & Central America (U.S. Bureau of Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 44) 60 (heading)
    3. 1940
      The territory in which the Zoque language was spoken has scarcely been changed on any map since Thomas.
      F. Johnson in Maya & their Neighbors vi. 109
    4. 1953
      This is most strikingly illustrated in Zoque, where the impermissibility of many sequences of consonants leads to a non-phonemic transposition of phoneme-order in the event of suffixation.
      C. E. Bazell, Linguistic Form 22
    5. 1964
      As in Zoque, spoken in Mexico, the Biblical expression ‘Perfect love casts out fear’ becomes ‘we do not fear when we truly love’.
      E. A. Nida, Toward Science of Translating vi. 134
    6. 1972
      Otomi nasal vowels, Mixteco,..and Zoque.
      Language vol. 48 847

Zoque, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

Zoque, n. was last modified in December 2024.