Zapotec, Isthmus

ZAI

developing

Alternate Names: Zapoteco del Istmo

Dialects: None known. 18% intelligibility of Santa María Petapa , (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 85,000 (1990 census).

Language Development: New media. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1972–2002.

Typology: VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico