Toquegua
Toquegua may be the name of a group of people, and a language, spoken along the Atlantic coast of
Golfo Dulce to the Ulua river in Honduras. It is also an elite indigenous family surname in colonial Honduras, and a place name in the Motagua river valley in 1536. Feldman (1975), largely based on unpublished notes of Nicholas Helmuth conserved in the American Philosophical Society, concludes that Toquegua is a Chʼol Mayan
-related language. Sheptak (2007) contests that identification and concludes the people referred to as the Toquegua were multi-lingual, speaking Yucatec, Chʼol, Nahuatl, and Lenca.
The Toquegua were merchants of cacao and feathers (particularly quetzal feathers) in the sixteenth century and hosted Yucatec Maya people in their communities.
References
- Feldman, Lawrence H. (1975), Riverine Maya. The Toquegua and other Chols of the Lower Motagua. Museum Brief 15. University of Missouri, Columbia.
- Feldman, Lawrence H. (1998), Motagua Colonial. C&M Online Media, Inc., Raleigh North Carolina.
- Sheptak, Russell N. (2007) "Los Toqueguas de la costa Norte de Honduras en la época colonial". Yaxkin 13(2): 140–157.
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