Zapotec, Guevea de Humboldt

ZPG

developing

Alternate Names: Northern Isthmus Zapotec, Zapoteco de Guevea de Humboldt

Dialects: None known. 49% intelligibility of Lachiguiri , (Northwestern Tehuantepec; most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 4,720 (2000 INEGI).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 2%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%–30%. Bible portions: 1982–1990.

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

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico