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Zapotec, Texmelucan

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3zpz

Population  4,100 (1992 SIL).
Region  West Oaxaca.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 254
Alternate names   Central Sola de Vega Zapotec, Papabuco, Zapoteco de San Lorenzo Texmelucan
Dialects  Most similar to Western Sola de Vega [zpw] (Zaniza).
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Zapotecan, Zapotec
A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap] (Mexico).
Language development  NT: 1989–2004.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Zaniza [zpw] and Elotepec Zapotec [zte] are also called ‘Papabuco’. VSO, short words, affixes, clitics, tonal. Swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

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

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

PICKETT, Velma B.; SPECK, Charles H., authors. 1976. "Some properties of the Texmelucan Zapotec verbs go, come, and arrive."

SPECK, Charles H., author. 1978. Texmelucan Zapotec suprasegmental phonology.

SPECK, Charles H., author. 1994. Texmelucan Zapotec verbs.

SPECK, Charles H., author. 1994. The existential use of positional verbs in Texmelucan Zapotec.

SPECK, Charles H., compiler. 1998. Zapotec Oral Literature: El Folklore de San Lorenzo Texmelucan, Folklore Texts in Mexican Indian Languages 4.  Available for purchase