Isthmus Zapotec
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| Isthmus Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| Juchitán Zapotec | |
| Diidxazá | |
| Pronunciation | [dìdʒàˈzà] |
| Region | Oaxaca, Mexico |
|
Native speakers
|
unknown (85,000 cited 1990 census)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zai |
| Glottolog | isth1244[2] |
Isthmus Zapotec, also known as Juchitán Zapotec (native name diidxazá;[3] Spanish: Zapoteco del Istmo), is a Zapotecan language spoken in Tehuantepec and Juchitán de Zaragoza, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Guevea de Humboldt Zapotec, a different language, is sometimes referred to as "Northern Isthmus Zapotec."[4]
Sounds
The sounds of Isthmus Zapotec are:
Consonants
- Plosives
-
- Voiceless
- p /pʰ/
- t /tʰ/
- c1 /kʰ/
-
- Voiced
- b /b/
- d /d/
- g2 /g/
- Fricatives and Affricates
-
- Voiced
- z /z/
- dx /dʑ/
- x /ʑ/
-
- Voiceless
- s /s/
- ch /tɕ/
- xh /ɕ/ (except before another consonant when it is written as x)
- Nasals
- m /m/
- n /n~ɴ/
- ñ /ɴʲ/
- Sonorants
-
- Plain
- r /ɾ/
- l /l/
- y /j/
-
- Emphasized
- r /r/
- l /ɮ/
- 1When a /k/ sound occurs before "e" or "i", it is spelled "qu".
- 2When a /g/ sound occurs before "e" or "i", it is spelled "gu". Also, the sound /gw/ is written "gü".
- 3This sound "bŕ" occurs very rarely for a bilabial trill. It occurs in words like "berenbŕ".
Vowels
- Plain
- a
- e
- i
- o
- u
- Laryngealized
- aa
- ee
- ii
- oo
- uu
- Checked by a glottal stop
- a'
- e'
- i'
- o'
- u'
Syllable structure
Isthmus Zapotec has only open syllables (that is, they must end in a vowel).
References
- ↑ Isthmus Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Pickett et al. (2007)
- ↑ Guevea de Humboldt Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- Pickett, Velma B. 1959. The grammatical hierarchy of Isthmus Zapotec. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan.
- Marlett, Stephen A. & Velma B. Pickett. 1996. El pronombre inaudible en el zapoteco del Istmo. In Zarina Estrada Fernández, Max Figueroa Esteva & Gerardo López Cruz (eds.) III Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste, 119-150. Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison.
- Marlett, Stephen A. 1987. The syllable structure and aspect morphology of Isthmus Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics 53: 398-422.
- Sicoli, Mark A. 1999. A comparison of Spanish loanwords in two Zapotec languages: Contact-induced language change in Lachixío and Juchitán Zapotec. University of Pittsburgh, M.A. Thesis.
External links
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Isthmus Zapotec test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- SIL Mexico — Isthmus Zapotec
- Language resources in Isthmus Zapotec
- OLAC resources in and about the Isthmus Zapotec language
- ELAR archive of Documentation of Isthmus Zapotec
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