El Alto Zapotec

El Alto Zapotec
(San Pedro el Alto)
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
unknown (900 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean (MP)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zpp
Glottolog elal1235[2]

El Alto Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Pedro el Alto), also known as South Central Zimatlan Zapotec, is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico, spoken in the towns of San Pedro el Alto, San Antonino el Alto, and San Andrés el Alto.

It has 20% intelligibility with the most similar variety of Zapotec, Totomachapan Zapotec.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 El Alto Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "El Alto Zapotec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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