Ixtlán Zapotec

Ixtlán Zapotec
Native to Mexico
Region Northern Oaxaca
Native speakers
unknown (7,000 cited 1990 & 2000 censuses)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
Yareni
Atepec
Central
Sierra Juárez
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
zae  Yareni (Western)
zaa  Central Ixtlán
Glottolog yare1249  (Yareni)[2]
sier1250  (Sierra de Juarez)[3]

Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility.[1] They are:

Yavesía Zapotec (Southeastern Ixtlán) is somewhat more divergent.

Yareni Zapotec speakers can communicate with speakers of related Zapotec variants in the towns of Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez, San Miguel Aloapam, and San Isidro Aloápam (Aloápam Zapotec).[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Yareni (Western) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Central Ixtlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yareni Zapotec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sierra de Juarez Zapotec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Santa Ana Yareni Zapotec (zae)". Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. Retrieved 2014-03-09.

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