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Zapotec, Yatzachi

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: zav

Population	2,500 in Mexico (1990 census).
Region	North central Oaxaca, Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Xoochixtepec, Yohueche, Zoochina, Zoochila, Yalina. Also in United States.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 243
Alternate names	Villa Alta Zapotec, Zapoteco de Yatzachi
Dialects	90% intelligibility with Zoogocho [zpq] on narrative, 85% with Cajonos [zad] (Southern Villa Alta) and Yalálag [zpu]; somewhat with Solaga and Tabaa [zat].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 30%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1971.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; long words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists in Oaxaca; wage laborers outside.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BIBER, Douglas, author. 1978. Evidence for rule re-ordering from the Otomanguean languages.

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

BUTLER H., Inez M., compiler. 1997. Diccionario Zapoteco de Yatzachi: Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Oaxaca.

BUTLER H., Inez M., compiler. 2000. Diccionario zapoteco de Yatzachi: Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Oaxaca.  

BUTLER, Inez M., author. 1976. "Reflexive constructions of Yatzachi Zapotec."

BUTLER, Inez M., author. 1976. Verb classification of Yatzachi Zapotec.  

BUTLER, Inez M., author. 1980. Gramática zapoteca: Zapoteco de Yatzachi el Bajo.

BUTLER, Inez M., author. 1982. "Un relato de la hechicería en los pueblos zapotecos de la sierra en el distrito de Villa Alta."

LEAL, Mary, author. 1950. "Patterns of tone substitution in Zapotec morphology."

LEAL, Mary; LEAL, Otis, authors. 1954. "Noun possession in Villa Alta Zapotec."

LEAL, Otis, author. 1951. "Problems in Zapotec translation."

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

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

PIKE, Eunice V., author. 1948. "Problems in Zapotec tone analysis."