Alternate Names: Southern Villa Alta Zapotec, Yaganiza Zapotec, Zapoteco de San Pedro Cajonos
Dialects: Cajonos Zapotec, San Mateo Zapotec, Xagacía Zapotec, Yaganiza. Yaganiza and Xagacía dialects are similar. Major differences between those and the other 4 towns; adaptation of literature probably needed. San Pedro Cajonos dialect has 73% intelligibility of Zoogocho , (most similar other Zapotec). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 5,000 in Mexico (1993 SIL). Many monolinguals.
Language Use: Used as L2 by Santa Catarina Albarradas Zapotec [ztn].
Language Development: Bilingual primary school. Dictionary. NT: 2011.
Typology: VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico