Zapotec, Yatzachi

ZAV

developing

Alternate Names: Villa Alta Zapotec, Zapoteco de Yatzachi

Dialects: None known. 90% intelligibility of Zoogocho , on narrative, 85% of Cajonos , (Southern Villa Alta) and Yalálag ,; somewhat of Tabaa ,. A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 2,500 in Mexico (1990 census).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 30%. Literacy rate in L2: 78%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1971.

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

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico