Amatlán Zapotec (Northeastern 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
Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...
,
Mexico
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, 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 in the south of the Sierra Sur Region.
As of 2005, the municipality ...
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 different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intellig ...
.
References
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Amatlán Zapotec language*
Zapotec languages
Languages of Mexico
Oto-Manguean languages
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