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Chiapas Zoque is a dialect cluster of Zoquean languages indigenous to southern Mexico (Wichmann 1995). The three varieties Francisco León (about 20000 speakers in 1990) Copainalá (about 10000) and Rayón (about 2000) are named after the towns they are spoken in though residents of Francisco León were relocated after their town was buried in the eruption of El Chichón Volcano in 1982. Francisco León and Copainalá are 83% mutually intelligible according to Ethnologue.