Ayapa Zoque (Ayapaneco), or Tabasco Zoque, is a critically endangered Zoquean language of Ayapa, a village 10 kilometres (6 mi) southeast of Comalcalco, in Tabasco, Mexico.
[4] In 2010 a story started circulating that the last two speakers of the Ayapaneco language were enemies and no longer talked to each other.
[5] Daniel Suslak, an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University, is one of the linguists working to prepare the first dictionary of the language.
[2] In 2013 Vodafone launched an advertisement campaign in which they claimed to have helped the community revitalize the language, proposing an erroneous story of enmity between Don Manuel and Don Isidro.
[5][10][11] A PhD dissertation on Ayapa Zoque at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) appeared in 2019,[12] and an orthography designed to better facilitate the development of pedagogical materials and education of new learners is under development.