Isthmus Zapotec

Isthmus Zapotec
Juchitán Zapotec
Diidxazá
Pronunciation [dìdʒàˈzà]
Region Oaxaca, Mexico
Native speakers
 (85,000 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
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, ones that end in a vowel.

References

  1. ↑ Isthmus Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Isthmus Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Pickett et al. (2007)
  4. ↑ Guevea de Humboldt Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  • Alfabeto Popular para La Escritura del Zapoteco del Istmo (in Spanish). 1956.
  • Pickett, Velma B. (1988) [1959]. Vocabulario Zapoteco del Istmo (in Spanish).
  • Marlett, Stephen A.; Pickett, Velma B. (1996). "El pronombre inaudible en el zapoteco del Istmo". In Fernández, Zarina Estrada; Esteva, Max Figueroa; Cruz, Gerardo López. III Encuentro de Lingüística en el Noroeste (in Spanish). Hermosillo, Sonora: Editorial Unison. pp. 119–150.
  • Pickett, Velma B.; Black, Cheryl; Cerqueda, Vincente Marcial (2001) [1998]. Gramática Popular del Zapoteco del Istmo (in Spanish).
  • Pickett, Velma B.; Villalobos Villalobos, María; Marlett, Stephen A. (2008). Stephen A. Marlett., ed. "Zapoteco del Istmo (Juchitán)" (PDF). Ilustraciones fonéticas de lenguas amerindias (in Spanish). Lima: SIL International y Universidad Ricardo Palma.
  • Britton, A. Scott (2003). Zapotec-English/English-Zapotec (Isthmus) Concise Dictionary. ISBN 0-7818-1010-8.
  • 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.
  • De Korne, Haley. 2016. "A treasure" and "a legacy": Individual and communal (re)valuing of Isthmus Zapotec in multilingual Mexico. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 31.1:21-42. Online access


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