Amatlán Zapotec (Northeastern Miahuatlán Zapotec) is a
Zapotec language spoken in southern
Oaxaca,
Mexico, in the municipalities of
San Cristóbal Amatlán
San Cristóbal Amatlán is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 96.96 km².
It is part of the Miahuatlán District
Miahuatlán District is located in the south of the Sierra Sur Re ...
and
San Francisco Logueche, in the district of
Miahuatlán. Although the towns' residents speak different dialects, the dialects are
mutually intelligible
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. It is sometimes used as an ...
.
References
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Amatlán Zapotec language*
Zapotec languages
Languages of Mexico
Oto-Manguean languages
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