San Vicente Zapotec

San Vicente Zapotec (in full San Vicente Coatlán Zapotec, also Southern Ejutla Zapotec), is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, in the Ejutla District and San Vicente Coatlán.

Not to be confused with Coatlán Zapotec.
San Vicente Zapotec
San Vicente Coatlán Zapotec
Southern Ejutla Zapotec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
3,400 (2005 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3zpt
Glottologsanv1242

It is 75% intelligible with San Baltázar Loxicha Zapotec, and 45% intelligible with Santo Domingo Coatlán Zapotec.

Phonology

Vowels
Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
ɛ ɔ
Open a

Consonants
Labial Dental Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Labio-
velar
Plosive p t̪ tʲ k kʷ
Affricate ts tʂ
Fricative voiceless (f) θ s ʂ x
voiced β ð z ʐ ɣ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Rhotic r
Lateral ɭ
Approximant w j

[2]

References
  1. San Vicente Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Beam de Azcona, Rosemary Grace (2004). A Coatlan-Loxicha Zapotec Grammar. University of California, Berkeley.



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