Maps of Tol

Hokan in Contemporary Meso-America


Hokan in Contemporary Meso-America

Source:   The LINGUIST List  "Hokan: Composite 2008". The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Data Source:  Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. "Meso-America". In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.). Atlas of the World's Languages 57. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   June 2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Hokan subgroup languages are spoken today. Only two groups use these languages in Meso-America, with the Tol family population being estimated at 350 people and the Chontal group estimated at 4,500. Despite the size of these groups, the language is projected to have had more than 2,000 years of time depth (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary Meso-American Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.

Hokan in Contemporary Meso-America


Hokan in Contemporary Meso-America

Source:   The LINGUIST List  "Hokan: Composite 2008". The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Data Source:  Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 57. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   20 June 2011

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Hokan subgroup languages are spoken today. Only two groups use these languages in Meso-America, with the Tol family population being estimated at 350 people and the Chontal group estimated at 4,500. Despite the size of these groups, the language is projected to have had more than 2,000 years of time depth (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary Meso-American Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.

Hokan in Meso-America at the Time of Contact


Hokan in Meso-America at the Time of Contact

Source:   LINGUIST List "Hokan: Composite 2008." The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Data Source: Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. "Meso-America". In R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages: 56. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Digitized:   June 2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Hokan subgroup languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified by Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Meso-America at the Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.