Rincón Zapotec

Rincón Zapotec (Northern Villa Alta Zapotec, Nexitzo) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Rincón Zapotec
Native toMexico
Regionnorthern Oaxaca
Native speakers
(41,000 cited 1990–2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
zar – Rincón
zsr – Southern Rincón
Glottologrinc1236  Rincon
sout3004  Southern Rincon
ELPRincón[2]

Temaxcalapan dialect may be distinct enough to be considered a separate language. The next closest language is Choápam Zapotec, with 65% intelligibility.[1]

Phonology

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid e o
Open æ a

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Affricate voiceless ts tʃ
voiced dz dʒ
Fricative voiceless s ʃ x
voiced z ʒ
Nasal n
Rhotic ɾ
Approximant l j

Sounds such as /f k ʎ m ɲ r v w/ only occur in loanwords from Spanish. A double consonant ll occurs as a geminated /lː/ rather than a palatalized ll from Spanish.

References
  1. Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Rincón.
  • Alleman, Vera Mae, compiler. 1952. Vocabulario zapoteco del Rincón. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
  • Earl, Robert. 1968. "Rincon Zapotec clauses." International Journal of American Linguistics 34: 269-74.
  • Earl, Robert. 2018. "Gramática del zapoteco de Rincón". Mexico
  • Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1881). Doctrina cristiana, traducida de la lengua castellana en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras adiciones útiles y necesarias para la educacion católica y excitacion á la devocion cristiana. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
  • Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1687). "Doctrina christiana, traducida de la lengua castellana, en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras addiciones utiles y necessarias para la educacion catholica y excitacion a la devocion christiana". Retrieved 2014-03-09.


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