A Linguistic Look at the Olmecs
- 20 January 1976
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 41 (1) , 80-89
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279044
Abstract
This paper explores the hypothesis that the archaeological Olmecs, at least in part, were speakers of Mixe-Zoquean languages. The hypothesis is supported by not only geographical and temporal correlation, but by Mixe-Zoquean loan words in other Mesoamerican languages, many of which refer to things diagnostic of the Mesoamerican culture area. Also the cultural inventory revealed in Proto-Mixe-Zoquean vocabulary provides additional support.Keywords
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