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Tolupán, Pech and Tawahka Foodways

Indigenous

⚠ THREE SMALL PEOPLES WHO ARE NOT ONE AND ARE NOT LENCA. The TOLUPÁN (also called Jicaque or Xicaque) live in Yoro and Francisco Morazán; their language TOL is a small, distinct family with very few remaining speakers, and a second variety, WESTERN JICAQUE, is recorded as no longer spoken. The PECH (formerly called Paya) live in Olancho, Colón and Gracias a Dios; PECH is Chibchan, and severely endangered. The TAWAHKA live along the Patuca river in Gracias a Dios and Olancho and speak a MAYANGNA variety — ⚠ Misumalpan, so related to Miskitu and NOT to Pech. The foodways are river and forest: cassava, plantain, maize, beans, rice, palm fruits, river fish, game and honey; roasting and boiling; and in the Pech case a documented cacao and CHICHA tradition. ⚠ THESE ARE RECORDED AS EXISTING PEOPLES, briefly and carefully, because the published record on their foodways is genuinely thin and inventing detail would be worse than admitting the gap.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Tolupán community documented
  • Pech community documented
  • Tawahka community documented

Languages: Tol, Western Jicaque, Pech, Mayangna, Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Tolupán of Yoro and Francisco Morazán speak Tol, a small distinct language family; a second variety, Western Jicaque, is recorded as no longer spoken. The Pech of Olancho, Colón and Gracias a Dios speak a Chibchan language recorded as severely endangered. The Tawahka of the Patuca river speak a Mayangna variety and are therefore Misumalpan and unrelated to the Pech. The published record on their specific foodways is thin and this system records the gap rather than filling it. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Honduran Cuisine documented

    ⚠ Three distinct peoples with three unrelated language affiliations — Tol its own family, Pech Chibchan, Tawahka Misumalpan.

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