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Tol language

Tol (Tolpan), also known as Eastern Jicaque, Tolupan, and Torupan, is spoken by approximately 500 Tolupan people in La Montaña de la Flor reservation in Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras.

Tol speakers refer to themselves as the Tolpán, but are called Jicaques or Turrupanes by ladinos.

Tol was also spoken in much of Yoro Department, but only a few speakers were reported in the Yoro Valley in 1974.

Tol used to be spoken from the Río Ulúa in the west, to modern-day Trujillo in the east, and to the Río Sulaco in the inland south. This area included the areas around modern-day El Progreso, La Ceiba, and possibly also San Pedro Sula. Most Tolupan had fled the Spanish from coastal regions by the early 1800s. The Tol speakers at La Montaña de la Flor fled the Yoro Valley in 1865 to avoid being conscripted into forced labor by the local governor (Campbell & Oltrogge 1980:206, Hagen 1943, Chapman 1978).

The Tol alphabet is as follows:

A a, C c, Cj cj, C' c', E e, I i, J j, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Pj pj, P' p', Q q, Qj qj, S s, T t, Tj tj, T' t', Ts ts, Tsj tsj, Ts' ts', U u, Ü ü, V v, W w, Y y, '.

Spanish loanwords use the following letters:

B b, D d, G g, F f, H h, Ll ll, Ñ ñ, R r, Rr rr, Z z.

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