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Ixtlán Zapotec

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Ixtlán Zapotec
Native toMexico
RegionNorthern Oaxaca
Native speakers
(7,000 cited 1990 & 2000 censuses)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
  • Yareni
  • Atepec
  • Central
  • Sierra Juárez
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
zae – Yareni (Western)
zaa – Central Ixtlán
Glottologyare1249  Yareni
sier1250  Sierra de Juarez
ELPIxtlán (shared)

Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility.[1] They are:

Yavesía Zapotec (Southeastern Ixtlán) is somewhat more divergent.

Yareni Zapotec speakers can communicate with speakers of related Zapotec variants in the towns of Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez, San Miguel Aloapam, and San Isidro Aloápam (Aloápam Zapotec).[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Yareni (Western) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Central Ixtlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec (zae)". Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. Retrieved 2014-03-09.

Sources

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  • Foreman, John. 2006. The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec. Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA.
  • Nellis, Neil and Jane Goodner Nellis. 1983. Diccionario Zapoteco de Juarez. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Mexico.
  • Bartholomew, Doris A. 1983. Grammatica Zapoteca, in Neil Nellis and Jane Goodner Nellis Diccionario Zapoteco de Juarez Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Mexico.
  • Bickmore, Lee S. and George A. Broadwell. 1998. High tone docking in Sierra Juárez Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics, 64:37-67.
  • Gibbs, William P. 1977. Discourse elements in Sierra de Juarez Zapotec. M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.
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