Tejalapan Zapotec

Tejalapan Zapotec (Zapoteco de Tejalápam) is a nearly extinct Zapotecan language of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (San Felipe Tejalapam). It may be closest to the otherwise divergent Mazaltepec Zapotec.

Tejalapan Zapotec
(San Felipe Tejalápam)
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Ethnicity4,700 people in the town (no date, but probably 1990 census[1])[2]
Native speakers
(120 cited 1990 census)[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ztt
Glottologteja1235
ELPTejalapan Zapotec[4]

References

  1. going by other Zapotec entries in Ethnologue
  2. Tejalapan Zapotec at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  3. Tejalapan Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  4. Endangered Languages Project data for Tejalapan Zapotec.


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