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Zapotec, Isthmus

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: zai

Population	85,000 (1990 census).
Region	Oaxaca, Tehuantepec, and Juchitán.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 110
Alternate names	Zapoteco del Istmo
Dialects	18% intelligibility with Santa María Petapa (most similar).
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development	Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1972–2002.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Fishermen; peasant agriculturalists; merchants.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2006. Alfabeto popular para la escritura del Zapoteco del Istmo 1956.  

BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2008. Number marking innovations in Zapotec.  

BLACK, Cheryl A.; MARCIAL C., Vicente; PICKETT, Velma B., authors. 2001. Gramática popular del zapoteco del Istmo, segunda edición (electrónica).  

BLACK, Cheryl A.; MARCIAL C., Vicente; PICKETT, Velma B., editors. 1998. Gramática popular del zapoteco del Istmo.

EMBREY, Virginia, author. 1969. Literacy among the Zapotecs of the Isthmus.

EMBREY, Virginia; PICKETT, Velma B., compilers. 1974. Zapoteco del Istmo: Juchitán, Oaxaca.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1985. Some aspects of Zapotecan clausal syntax.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1990. Zapotec pronoun classification.

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1993. "Zapotec pronoun classification."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B., authors. 1985. Syllable structure and aspect morphology in Isthmus Zapotec.

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B., authors. 1986. "Pluralization in Zapotec languages."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B., authors. 1987. "The syllable structure and aspect morphology of Isthmus Zapotec."

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B., authors. 1996. "El pronombre inaudible en el zapoteco del Istmo."  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B.; VILLALOBOS V., María, authors. 2008. "Zapoteco del Istmo (Juchitan)."  

MARLETT, Stephen A.; PICKETT, Velma B.; VILLALOBOS, María Villalobos, authors. 2010. "Isthmus (Juchitán) Zapotec."  

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1951. "Nonphonemic stress: a problem in stress placement in Isthmus Zapotec."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1953. "Isthmus Zapotec verb analysis I."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1953. "Las construcciones de los verbos del zapoteco del Istmo, de Juchitán, Oaxaca."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1955. "Isthmus Zapotec verb analysis II."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1959. The grammatical hierarchy of Isthmus Zapotec.

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1967. "Isthmus Zapotec."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1981. How intuitive is the ‘word’? A response.

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1983. "Mexican Indian languages and Greenberg’s ‘Universals of grammar’."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1987. "Clitics: To be or not to be words."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1989. "Aspect in Isthmus Zapotec."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1989. "Isthmus Zapotec loans."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1990. "Comparación de dos ‘dialectos’ zapotecos."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1990. "Zapotec—language or languages?."

PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1992. "Palabras de préstamo en zapoteco del Istmo."

PICKETT, Velma, compiler. 1959. Castellano-zapoteco, zapoteco-castellano: Dialecto del zapoteco del Istmo.

PICKETT, Velma, compiler. 1965. Vocabulario zapoteco del Istmo: Castellano-zapoteco y zapoteco-castellano.  

PICKETT, Velma, compiler. 2007. Vocabulario zapoteco del Istmo: Español-zapoteco y zapoteco-español.  

PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1962. "Dimensions of grammatical constructions."

REGNIER, Randall, author. 1996. "Isthmus Zapotec to Quiegolani Zapotec: a New Testament computer adaptation project, and an AMPLE source disambiguation tool needed to do the adaptation."

WEBER, David J., author. 1994. Reflections on Isthmus Zapotec inflection.