Science. 1966 Oct 14;154(3746):273-5. doi: 10.1126/science.154.3746.273.
A sample of 200 native plant names from the Tzeltal-speaking municipio of Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, was found to consist of 41 percent that comprised more than one botanical species, 34 percent with a one-to-one correspondence, and 25 percent that referred to only a part of a botanical species. Cultural significance was least for the plants in the first group, greatest for those in the last group. Over half (60 percent) of the names for which there was one-to-one correspondence were plants associated with Hispanic culture, introduced as named entities following the Spanish conquest.
从墨西哥恰帕斯州特内杰帕的 Tzeltal 语地区采集的 200 种本地植物名称样本中，发现其中 41%的名称包含不止一个植物物种，34%的名称与一个植物物种相对应，25%的名称仅指一个植物物种的一部分。文化意义最小的是第一组植物，最大的是最后一组植物。在有一对一对应关系的名称中，超过一半（60%）是与西班牙文化相关的植物，这些名称是在西班牙征服后作为命名实体引入的。
