Alternate Names: Guelavía, Western Tlacolula Zapotec, Zapoteco de San Juan
Dialects: Jalieza Zapotec, San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec, San Martín Tilcajete Zapotec, Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. 20% intelligibility of Zegache (most similar); Jalieza 99% of San Juan Guelavía; Teotitlán del Valle 100% of San Juan Guelavía, but San Juan Guelavía only 59% of Teotitlán del Valle. A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 28,000 in Mexico (1990 census). Population total all countries: 28,500.
Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 10%. Dictionary. NT: 1995.
Typology: VSO; affixes, clitics; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico