Zaachila Zapotec

Zaachila Zapotec
Native to Mexico
Region south Oaxaca
Ethnicity 10,000 (1990 census)[1]
Native speakers
(550 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ztx
Glottolog zaac1239[2]

Zaachila Zapotec (San Raymundo Jalpan Zapotec) is a small Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is perhaps a dialect of Yatzeche Zapotec, which is 85% intelligible to Zaachila speakers. Tilquiapan Zapotec is 75% intelligible, 72% of San Juan Guelavía to Zaachila speakers.[1]

Zaachila Zapotec is spoken in San Raymundo Jalpan, south Oaxaca City, past Xoxo, Zaachila, San Bartolo Coyotepec, San Pablo Cuatro Venados, and Santa María Coyotepec. It is not written.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Zaachila Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zaachila Zapotec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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