Zapotec, Chichicapan

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Alternate Names: Eastern Ocotlán Zapotec, Zapoteco de San Baltazar Chichicapan

Dialects: None known. 59% intelligibility of Ocotlán Zapotec , (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Popolocan-Zapotecan
Zapotecan
Zapotec

Demographics: 2,720 (2005 INEGI).

Language Use: Mainly adults. Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 30%–50%. NT: 1990.

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

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico