Zapotec, Choapan

ZPC

moribund

Alternate Names: Zapoteco de Choapan, Zapoteco de San Juan Comaltepec

Dialects: None known. 60% intelligibility of Zoogocho , (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 12,000 (2007 SIL).

Language Use: A few elderly. Many youth rapidly switching to Spanish.

Language Development: Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1986.

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

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico