Zapotec, Yalálag

ZPU

developing

Alternate Names: Zapoteco de Yalálag

Dialects: A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 3,500 in Mexico (2005). 2,000 are in Yalálag.

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 70%. NT: 2000.

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

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico