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Zapotec, Sierra de Juárez

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: zaa

Population	4,000 (1990 census). 150 monolinguals.
Region	North Oaxaca.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 202
Alternate names	Ixtlán Zapoteco, Zapoteco de Atepec
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development	Dictionary. NT: 1970.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Whistle speech reported. VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists; swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bartholomew, Doris A. 1983. "Gramática zapoteca."

Butler, Inez M., Katherine Earl, David Nellis, and others. 1986. "Expressions of the sacred in Zapotecan languages."

Gibbs, William P. 1977. Discourse elements in Sierra de Juarez Zapotec.

Longacre, Robert E. 1986. "A feature of Proto-Otomanguean discourse structure?."

Marks, Donna. 1976. Zapotec verb morphology: Categories and tonomechanics, with special attention to Sierra Juarez Zapotec.

Nellis, Jane G. 1947. "Sierra Zapotec forms of address."

Nellis, Neil and Jane G. Nellis, compilers. 1983. Diccionario zapoteco de Juárez: zapoteco-español, español-zapoteco (Ca titsaʼ quiʼ riʼu).

Pickett, Velma B. 1989. Review of: Diccionario zapoteco: Zapoteco de Juarez, by Neil Nellis and Jane G. Nellis.

Pickett, Velma B., compiler. 1989. Review of: Diccionario zapoteco de Juárez: zapoteco-español, español-zapoteco (Ca titsaʼ quiʼ riʼu), by Neil Nellis and Jane G. Nellis, compilers.