Totozoquean

Totozoquean is a proposed language family of Mesoamerica that joins the Totonacan languages of the Gulf coast and the Mixe–Zoque languages of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The grouping remains debated; the Huavean languages of the Oaxaca coast may be its closest relatives.

When the Spanish conquest reached the Gulf coast in 1519, Totonacan languages were spoken along the shore and were occasionally written in the colonial period. Many scholars hold that the Olmecs, who flourished from roughly 1200 to 400 BCE, spoke a Mixe–Zoque language, and the Isthmian or Epi-Olmec script may record an early Zoquean tongue.