Zaniza Zapotec

Zaniza Zapotec
(Santa María Zaniza)
Western Sola de Vega Zapotec
Papabuco
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
 (770 cited 1990 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zpw
Glottolog zani1235[2]

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.)

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]

References

  1. 1 2 Zaniza Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zaniza Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Egland, Bartholomew, & Cruz Ramos. 1983 [1978]. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeos.
  4. ↑ Opferstein, Natalie. "Spanish Loanwords and the Historical Phonology of Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  5. ↑ "Graduate Student Profile - Natalie Operstein (Indo-European Studies)". UCLA Graduate Division. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  • Opferstein, 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.
  • 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


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