Word: guatamalian
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Zinacantan is the physical center of the universe. Or so the Zinacantecos believe people, eight thousand strong, scattered over a mountainous section state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatamalian border--an area that seems quite insignificant on any map of the world. But Zinacantecos do not care how they appear to the rest of the world. They do not even think of themselves primarily as Indians, despite the fact (unrecognized by them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant...
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