Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec

Tlacolula Valley Zapotec
Guelavia Zapotec
Native to Mexico
Region central Oaxaca
Native speakers
unknown (29,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
Teotitlán del Valle
San Martín Tilcajete
Jalieza Zapotec
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zab
Glottolog sanj1284[2]

Tlacolula Valley Zapotec or Valley Zapotec, formerly known by the varietal name Guelavia Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Tlacolula Valley Zapotec is a cluster of Zapotec languages spoken in the western Tlacolula Valley, which show varying degrees of mutual intelligibility. The languages in this group include:

Teotitlán del Valle dialect is divergent, 59% intelligible to San Juan Guelavía proper.

In April 2014, linguist Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, along with students from Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, visited Tlacolula de Matamoros to present an online Tlacolula Valley Zapotec talking dictionary to local leaders. It was estimated that about 100 elderly speakers of this Zapotecan language remain.[3]

References

  1. Tlacolula Valley Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "San Juan Guelavia Zapotec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Doughtery, Ryan (2014-05-27). "Linguistics Students Help Revitalize Critically Endangered Language in Mexico". News & Events, Swarthmore College. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

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