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Preferred term

zavYatzachi Zapotec  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Yatzachi Zapotec is an Oto-Manguean language of the Zapotecan branch, spoken in northern central Oaxaca, Mexico. It had about 2,500 speakers at the time of the 1990 Mexican census. The Yatzachi dialect belongs to the Villa Alta group of Zapotec dialects, of which the main dialect is San Bartolomé Zoogocho. The degree of mutual intelligibility between Yatzachi and the San Bartolomé Zoogocho dialect is estimated to be around 90 percent.

Entry terms

  • Zapotec, Yatzachi

ISO 639-3 code

  • zav

Notation

  • zav

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/zav

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