Coatecas Altas Zapotec

Coatecas Altas Zapotec is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, in and around the town of Coatecas Altas, in the Ejutla District, south of Oaxaca City.[3] It is 83% intelligible with Ozolotepec Zapotec, and similar to Miahuatlán Zapotec.[1]

Coatecas Altas Zapotec
(San Juan Coatecas Altas)
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
4,900 (2005 census)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3zca
Glottologcoat1244[2]

Communities of Coatecas Altas speakers can also be found in Soconusco, Chiapas, San Bernardino, Oaxaca, and in the areas surrounding San Quintín, Baja California.[3]

References

  1. Coatecas Altas Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coatecas Altas Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Coatecas Altas Zapotec (zca)". Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. Archived from the original on 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.


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