The Tzotzil dialogs are written in a Spanish-based practical orthography, which is slightly normalized. The following abbreviations occur in the morpheme-by-morpheme glosses.
| 1 | 1st person |
| 2 | 2nd person |
| 3 | 3rd person |
| A | absolutive cross-index |
| ART | article |
| AUX | auxiliary |
| BEN | benefactive, ditransitive suffix |
| CL | clitic |
| CP | completive aspect |
| DIR | directional clitic |
| E | ergative/possessive prefix |
| ICP | incompletive aspect |
| NEG | negative |
| NT | neutral aspect |
| PF | perfect/resultative suffix |
| PL | plural |
| PREP | generalized preposition |
| PT | particle |
| QUOT | quotative (evidential) clitic |
| REL | generalized relator clitic |
| SBJ | subjunctive affix |
| SUBJ | subjunctive suffix |