Mazaltepec Zapotec

Mazaltepec Zapotec
(Santo Tomás Mazaltepec)
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
unknown (2,200 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zpy
Glottolog maza1294[2]

Mazaltepec Zapotec, also known as Etla Zapotec, is a divergent Zapotec language of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It stands apart from other varieties of Zapotec; it has only 10% intelligibility with San Juan Guelavía Zapotec (at least with some varieties, as that may not be a single language), but zero intelligibility with other varieties of Zapotec that have been tested. The moribund Tejalapan Zapotec may be closer.

References

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


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