Zoogocho Zapotec

Zoogocho Zapotec
(San Bartolomé Zoogocho)
Diža'xon
Pronunciation [diʒaʔˈʐon]
Native to Mexico
Region Northern Oaxaca
Native speakers
 (1,400 cited ca. 1991)[1]
(1,000 in Mexico)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
  • Zoogocho
  • Yalina
  • Tabehua
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zpq
Glottolog zoog1238[2]

Zoogocho Zapotec, or Diža'xon,[3] is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

It is spoken in San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca, Santa María Yalina, Tabehua, and Oaxaca City.[1]

As of 2013, about 1,500 "Zoogochenses" live in Los Angeles, California. Classes are held in the MacArthur Park neighborhood to preserve the Zoogocho Zapotec language.[4]

The language is also known as Tabehua, Yalina, Zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, and Zoogocho.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Zoogocho Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Zoogocho Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Long & Cruz (1999)
  4. ↑ "Los Angeles immigrant community pushes to keep Zapotec language alive". PRI, Public Radio International. 2013-08-09. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
  5. ↑ "OLAC resources in and about the Zoogocho Zapotec language". Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  • Sonnenschein, Aaron Huey (2005). A descriptive grammar of San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783895868030.


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