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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Zapotec, Yareni

Zapotec, Yareni

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3zae

Population  2,900 (2000 census).
Region  North Oaxaca.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 200
Alternate names   Etla Zapotec, Western Ixtlán Zapotec, Zapoteco de Santa Ana Yareni, Zapoteco de Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez
Dialects  80% intelligibility with Sierra de Juárez Zapotec [zaa]. Different from Aloapam Zapotec [zaq].
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec
A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%–75%. Bible portions: 1966–1990.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  VSO; affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Thiessen, Grace. 1987. "The functions of the clitic -ha in Western Ixtlán Zapotec."

Vernacular Publications

¿Bi guate ca chiva toha?. 2002.  Available online

¿Nu anca neti?. 2004.

¿Nu beni quini ugüetti chalupa-ni lhiʼiu lheʼe inda?. 2004.

¿Nu xuban nuni?. 2004.

Ca bandera gue Méxicu. 2006.

Ca verbo rinnecana rixúquinna nu sia latiri'i = Verbos compuestos que utilizan partes del cuerpo. 2007.

Cuentu gue ttu binni ttuntu lenna ttu utama. 2004.

Diccionario ilustrado en el zapoteco de Santa Ana Yareni. 2002.

Diccionario ilustrado en el zapoteco de Santa Ana Yareni. 2005.  Available online

Tsunna ca changu (Tres changos; Zapoteco de Santa Ana Yareni). 2004.  Available online

Ulabariʼi ca númeru. 2004.

Ulabari'i ca númeru. 2005.  Available online