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Zapotec, Amatlán

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: zpo

Population	10,000 (2000 SIL). 20% monolinguals.
Region	South Oaxaca, east of Miahuatlán. 2 towns.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 279
Alternate names	Dizhze, Zapoteco de San Cristóbal Amatlán, Zapoteco del Noreste de Miahuatlán
Dialects	San Cristóbal Amatlán, San Francisco Logueche. Most similar to Loxicha [ztp].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language use	Vigorous. A few Spanish speakers who live there can speak it. All domains. All ages. Fluency in Spanish has increased, but Zapotec is preferred. A few can also speak other forms of Zapotec.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%. 500 readers and writers. NT: 2002.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Speakers leave the area to find work. Some return. Self name, Dizhxtil, is also sometimes used for all languages except Spanish. VSO, short words, tonal. Sedentary pastoralists; peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

RIGGS, David B., author. 1987. Paragraph analysis for Amatlán Zapotec.  

RIGGS, David B., author. 1991. A comparative grammar of English for Zapotec speakers (Gramática comparativa Inglés - Zapoteco).

RIGGS, Sylvia, author. 2011. Beginning Tone Analysis for Amatlán Zapotec.  

Vernacular Publications

¿Ma lu bich?. 2002.  

¿Ma lu bich?. 2006.  

Kit be kwaan re wdizh dizhze. 2006.

Kwent cheen konej rop mbew. 2005.  

Seed be re numbr dizhze. 2006.

Seed Be Re Numbr Dizhze. 2011.