. . . "(Sotz'leb)"@en . "Tzotzil"@en . "The Tzotzil are an indigenous Maya people of the central Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico. As of 2000, they numbered about 298,000. The municipalities with largest Tzotzil population are Chamula (48,500), San Crist\u00F3bal de las Casas (30,700), and Zinacantan (24,300), in the Mexican state of Chiapas.The Tzotzil language, like Tzeltal and Ch'ol, is descended from the proto-Ch'ol spoken in the late classic period at sites such as Palenque and Yaxchilan."@en . . . . "298000"^^ .