Coatlán Zapotec (Western Miahuatlán 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 are spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of ...
spoken in southern
Oaxaca
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,
Mexico
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. It uses
linguolabial sounds as
onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetics, phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as Oin ...
.
It is also known as San Miguel Zapotec and ''Zapoteco de Santa María Coatlán,'' to distinguish it from ''Zapoteco de San Vicente Coatlán.'' It is the only language that uses the linguolabial click. However, it is only used for onomatopoeias.
References
Sources
* Beam de Azcona, Rosemary G. 2004. ''A Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec Grammar''. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
External links
AILLA resources for Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec(Spanish and English)
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Languages of Mexico
Zapotec languages