Zapotec, Coatecas Altas

ZCA

vigorous

Alternate Names: Zapoteco de San Juan Coatecas Altas

Dialects: None known. Reportedly most similar to San Gregorio Ozolotepec (83% intelligibility) and Miahuatlán , (Cuitla). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 4,880 (2005 census). 100 monolinguals.

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%–30%. NT: 2013.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico