Zapotec, Lachiguiri

ZPA

threatened

Alternate Names: Northwestern Tehuantepec Zapotec, Zapoteco de Santiago Lachiguiri

Dialects: None known. 62% intelligibility in Quiavicuzas , and Isthmus , (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 5,000 (1977 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico