Ethnologue

Zapotec, Isthmus

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Zapoteco del Istmo

Autonym

diidxazá

Population

85,000 (1990 census).

Location

Oaxaca state: Juchitán and Tehuantepec.

Language Maps

Language Status

5 (Developing).

Classification

Dialects

None known. 18% intelligibility of Santa María Petapa [zpe] (most similar). A member of macrolanguage Zapotec [zap].

Typology

VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal.

Language Development

Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1972–2002.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].