Zapotec, Ocotlán

ZAC

vigorous

Alternate Names: Ocotlán Oeste Zapotec, Zapoteco del Poniente de Ocotlán

Dialects: None known. 67% intelligibility of Tilquiapan , (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 15,000 (1993 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%. NT: 1983.

Typology: VSO; short words, affixes; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico