Ixtlán Zapotec is a
Zapotec dialect cluster
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of
Oaxaca
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,
Mexico
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.
Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility.
[ They are:
*Yareni (Western Ixtlán, Etla Zapotec), spoken in ]Santa Ana Yareni
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.San Juan Atepec
San Juan Atepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 88.03 km². It is part of the Ixtlán District
Ixtlán District is located in the Sierra Norte region, in the northeastern are ...
and San Pablo Macuiltianguis
San Pablo Macuiltianguis is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
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.
*Central Ixtlan
*Sierra de Juárez
Yavesía Zapotec
Yavesía Zapotec, also known as Southeastern Ixtlán Zapotec ''(Zapoteco del Sureste de Ixtlán)'' and Latuvi Zapotec, is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in ...
(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
Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico
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, San Miguel Aloapam, and San Isidro Aloápam (Aloápam Zapotec
Aloápam Zapotec is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico
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).
References
Sources
* 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.
External links
*
Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec Language resources
* ttp://www.language-archives.org/language/zae OLAC resources in and about the Yareni Zapotec language
* ttp://www.language-archives.org/language/zaa OLAC resources in and about the Sierra de Juárez Zapotec language
Zapotec languages
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