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The Chontal Maya are an indigenous people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. Chontal from the Nahuatl word for chontalli which means foreigner has been applied to various ethnic groups in Mexico. The Chontal refer to themselves as the Yokot’anob or the Yokot’an meaning the speakers of Yoko ochoco but writers about them refer to them as the Chontal of Centla the Tabasco Chontal or in Spanish Chontales.