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:
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