Ixtlán Zapotec is a
Zapotec dialect cluster
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of
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Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility.
[ They are:
*Yareni (Western Ixtlán, Etla Zapotec), spoken in Santa Ana Yareni.]
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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