Isthmus Zapotec

Isthmus Zapotec
Juchitán Zapotec
Diidxazá
Pronunciation [dìdʒàˈzà]
Region Oaxaca, Mexico
Native speakers
unknown (85,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zai
Glottolog isth1244[2]

Isthmus Zapotec, also known as Juchitán Zapotec (native name diidxazá;[3] Spanish: Zapoteco del Istmo), is a Zapotecan language spoken in Tehuantepec and Juchitán de Zaragoza, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Guevea de Humboldt Zapotec, a different language, is sometimes referred to as "Northern Isthmus Zapotec."[4]

Sounds

The sounds of Isthmus Zapotec are:

Consonants

Plosives
Voiceless
p /pʰ/
t /tʰ/
c1 /kʰ/
Voiced
b /b/
d /d/
g2 /g/
Fricatives and Affricates
Voiced
z /z/
dx /dʑ/
x /ʑ/
Voiceless
s /s/
ch /tɕ/
xh /ɕ/ (except before another consonant when it is written as x)
Nasals
m /m/
n /n~ɴ/
ñ /ɴʲ/
Sonorants
Plain
r /ɾ/
l /l/
y /j/
Emphasized
r /r/
l /ɮ/

Vowels

Plain
a
e
i
o
u
Laryngealized
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu
Checked by a glottal stop
a'
e'
i'
o'
u'

Syllable structure

Isthmus Zapotec has only open syllables (that is, they must end in a vowel).

References

  1. Isthmus Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Isthmus Zapotec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Pickett et al. (2007)
  4. Guevea de Humboldt Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

External links

Isthmus Zapotec test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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