Chontal (from , 'foreigner') may refer to various ethnic groups in the Mesoamerican world.

Pre-Conquest Maya region

• Chontal or Putún Maya, a collective name for several groups of Maya during the Late Classic and Postclassic Eras

Mexico

Guerrero

• Chontal people (Guerrero), an extinct indigenous people in northern Guerrero

• Chontal language (Guerrero), their language

Tabasco

• Chontal Maya people, an indigenous people of Tabasco

• Chontal Maya language, spoken by the Chontal Maya people

Oaxaca

Chontal of Oaxaca, another name for the Tequistlatecan languages

• Lowland Oaxaca Chontal, another name for the Huamelula language

• Highland Oaxaca Chontal, a language spoken by some indigenous people in the state

Nicaragua

• Chontales Department, one of fifteen departments in Nicaragua

• Chontal of Nicaragua (es), the ethnicity for which the department is named after