Zapotec, Mixtepec

ZPM

developing

Alternate Names: Eastern Miahuatlán Zapotec, Zapoteco de San Juan Mixtepec

Dialects: None known. 80% intelligibility of Santiago Lapaguía , (most similar), but that is probably learned bilingualism (it is more likely to be 50%). A separate language from San Agustín Mixtepec Zapotec ,. A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 7,000 (1991 SIL).

Language Development: Videos. NT: 1998.

Typology: VSO; short words, clitics; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico