Isthmus Zapotec
Isthmus Zapotec (native name diidxazá; Spanish: Zapoteco del Istmo) is a Zapotecan language spoken in Tehuantepec and Juchitán de Zaragoza, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Sounds
The sounds of Isthmus Zapotec are:
Consonants
- Plosives
-
- Voiceless
- p
- t
- c1
-
- Voiced
- b
- d
- g2
- Fricatives and Affricates
-
- Voiced
- z
- dx
- x
-
- Voiceless
- s
- ch
- xh (except before another consonant when it is written as x)
- Nasals
- m
- n
- ñ
- Sonorants
-
- Plain
- r
- l
- y
-
- Emphasized
- r
- l
- 1When a "k" sound occurs before "e" or "i", it becomes "qu".
- 2When a "g" sound occurs before "e" or "i", it becomes "gu". Also, it is written "gü" for a "gw" sound.
- 3This sound "bŕ" occurs very rarely for a bilabial trill. It occurs in words like "berenbŕ".
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
- (Spanish) Alfabeto Popular para La Escritura del Zapoteco del Istmo. 1956. http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/istmo/L073-AlfPopZapIstmo-zai.htm.
- (Spanish) Pickett, Velma B. (1988) [1959]. Vocabulario Zapoteco del Istmo. http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/istmo/S003a-VocZapIstmo-zai.htm.
- (Spanish) Marlett, Stephen A.; Pickett, Velma B. (1996). "El pronombre inaudible en el zapoteco del Istmo". In Fernández, Zarina Estrada; Esteva, Max Figueroa; Cruz, Gerardo López. III Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste. Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison. pp. 119–150. http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/istmo/G008-PronInaudible-zai.htm.
- (Spanish) Pickett, Velma B.; Black, Cheryl; Cerqueda, Vincente Marcial (2001) [1998]. Gramática Popular del Zapoteco del Istmo. http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/istmo/G023a-GramaticaZapIstmo-zai.htm.
- (Spanish) Pickett, Velma B.; Villalobos Villalobos, María; Marlett, Stephen A. (2008). Stephen A. Marlett.. ed. "Zapoteco del Istmo (Juchitán).". Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias (Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo Palma). http://www.lengamer.org/publicaciones/trabajos/zapoteco_del_istmo_afi.pdf.
- Britton, A. Scott (2003). Zapotec-English/English-Zapotec (Isthmus) Concise Dictionary. ISBN 0-7818-1010-8.
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