Zaniza Zapotec
Zaniza Zapotec (Zapoteco de Santa María Zaniza) is an Oto-Manguean language of western Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of several Zapotec languages called Papabuco. It has only 10% intelligibility with Texmelucan Zapotec, its closest important relative. (Speakers of the nearly extinct Elotepec Zapotec have 70% understanding of Zaniza, but it is not known if the reverse is true,[3] so this may be a question of familiarity.)
| Zaniza Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| (Santa María Zaniza) | |
| Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (770 cited 1990 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zpw |
| Glottolog | zani1235 |
| ELP | Papabuco (shared)[2] |
The language is spoken in Santa María Zaniza, Oaxaca.[4] As of 2003, the language had about 400 fluent speakers.[5] It is also spoken in Santiago Textitlán.[1]
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | fortis | p | t | k, kw | |||
| lenis | b | d | g, gw | ||||
| Affricate | fortis | ʧ | |||||
| lenis | ʤ | ||||||
| Fricative | fortis | f | s | ʂ | ʃ | h, hw | |
| lenis | z | ʐ | ʒ | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Liquid | l | ʎ | |||||
| Guide | w | j |
Zaniza Zapotec has five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/, phonemic vowel nasalization, and a distinction between modal and laryngealized vowels.[6]
Tone
Zaniza Zapotec words contrast low, mid, and high tones on stressed syllables. Unstressed syllables, apart from a few pronominal enclitics, do not bear contrastive tone.
References
- Zaniza Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Papabuco (shared).
- Egland, Bartholomew, & Cruz Ramos. 1983 [1978]. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeos.
- Operstein, Natalie. "Spanish Loanwords and the Historical Phonology of Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-07. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - "Graduate Student Profile - Natalie Operstein (Indo-European Studies)". UCLA Graduate Division. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- Natalie, Operstein (2015). Zaniza Zapotec. Muenchen. ISBN 9783862886593. OCLC 928993315.
- Operstein, Natalie (2002). "Positional Verbs and Relational Nouns in Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Proceedings from the fourth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics. 11. pp. 60–70. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
External links
- Kaufman, Terence. "Zaniza Zapotec". El Archivo de los lenguas indigenas de Latinoamerica. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- "Zapotec, Zaniza language - Audio Bible stories and lessons". Global Recordings Network. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- "Mexico - Keyboards - Zaniza Zapotec". Tavultesoft. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- OLAC resources in and about the Zaniza Zapotec language