Zaniza Zapotec
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Zaniza Zapotec | |
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(Santa María Zaniza) | |
Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | 770 (1990 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zpw |
Zaniza Zapotec (Zapoteco de Santa María Zaniza) is an Oto-Manguean language of western Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of several Zapotec languages called Papabuco. It has only 10% intelligibility with Texmelucan Zapotec, its closest important relative. (Speakers of the nearly extinct Elotepec Zapotec have 70% understanding of Zaniza, but it is not known if the reverse is true,[2] so this may be a question of familiarity.)
The language is spoken in Santa María Zaniza, Oaxaca.[3] As of 2003, the language had about 400 fluent speakers.[4]
References
- ↑ Zaniza Zapotec reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ Egland, Bartholomew, & Cruz Ramos. 1983 [1978]. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeos.
- ↑ Opferstein, Natalie. Spanish Loanwords and the Historical Phonology of Zaniza Zapotec. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
- ↑ "Graduate Student Profile - Natalie Operstein (Indo-European Studies)". UCLA Graduate Division. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- Opferstein, Natalie (2002). "Positional Verbs and Relational Nouns in Zaniza Zapotec". Proceedings from the fourth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 11. pp. 60–70. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
External links
- Kaufman, Terence. "Zaniza Zapotec". El Archivo de los lenguas indigenas de Latinoamerica. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- "Zapotec, Zaniza language - Audio Bible stories and lessons". Global Recordings Network. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- "Mexico - Keyboards - Zaniza Zapotec". Tavultesoft. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- OLAC resources in and about the Zaniza Zapotec language
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