Loxicha Zapotec (Western Pochutla Zapotec) is a
Zapotec language
The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family and which is spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highland ...
of
Oaxaca
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,
Mexico
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. It is one of the most populous varieties of Zapotec, and the majority of speakers are monolingual.
Not all varieties of Zapotec from towns named "Loxicha" are part of Loxicha Zapotec.
San Baltázar Loxicha Zapotec, which includes Santa Catarina Loxicha, is a distinct language.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
/b, d/ can be
realized as
ðwhen occurring
intervocalically. /ɡ/ is realized as
when occurring at the first syllable. /ɸʷ, s/ only occur in Spanish loanwords. /ŋ/ only marginally occurs and at the end of a syllable.
References
Zapotec languages
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