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Zapotec, Yalálag

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: zpu

Population	3,500 in Mexico (2005). 2,000 are in Yalálag, others are in D.F., Oaxaca City, Veracruz.
Region	Oaxaca. Also in United States.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 244
Alternate names	Zapoteco de Yalálag
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 70%. NT: 2000.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists; craftsmen.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

López L., Filemón and Ronald Newberg. 1990. La conjugación del verbo zapoteco.

López, Filemón and Ronaldo Newberg Y. 2005. La conjugación del verbo zapoteco: zapoteco de Yalálag.  

Newberg, Ronald. 1987. "Participant accessibility in Yalálag Zapotec."

Vernacular Publications

Ba da'o ka' lla'a lyi'xe (Animales silvestres). 2005.  

Ba da'o ka' llachj (Los insectos). 2005.  

Ba da'o ka' llasgol-llo rall-llo (Amimales que criamos en nuestro pueblo). 2005.  

Diccionario ilustrado en el Zapoteco de Yalálag. 2003.