a member of an indigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico, or their language.
From Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico, with the suffix -ec indicating a person or language. Chiapas comes from the Nahuatl 'Chiapan,' meaning 'where the chia flows.'
The Chiapanec people speak a language with only about 3,000 speakers today, making it an endangered part of Mexico's incredible linguistic diversity that existed long before Spanish arrived!
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