Everything about Chorotega totally explained
Chorotega [tʃoro'tega] is the name of an indigenous people of
Honduras,
Costa Rica and
Nicaragua. The ethnic population number around 795 according to the ethnologue
2000 survey
(External Link
). The Chorotega language, which was a member of the Manguean branch of the
Oto-Manguean linguistic family, is now
extinct.
The Oto-Manguean languages are spoken mainly in
Mexico and it's thought that the Chorotega moved south from Mexico together with the speakers of
Subtiaba and
Chiapanec well before the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas.
Some sources list "
Cholutega" as an alternative name of the people and their language and this has caused some, for example
Terrence Kaufman (2001) to speculate that they were the original inhabitants of the city of
Cholula, who were displaced with the arrival of
Nahua people in central Mexico. The etymology for the nomenclature "Chorotega" in this case would come from the
Nahuatl language where "
Cholōltēcah" means "inhabitants of Cholula".
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