San Vicente Zapotec (in full San Vicente Coatlán Zapotec, also Southern Ejutla Zapotec), is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, in the Ejutla District and San Vicente Coatlán.
| San Vicente Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| San Vicente Coatlán Zapotec Southern Ejutla Zapotec | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | 3,400 (2005 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zpt |
| Glottolog | sanv1242 |
| ELP | San Vicente Coatlán |
It is 75% intelligible with San Baltázar Loxicha Zapotec, and 45% intelligible with Santo Domingo Coatlán Zapotec.
Phonology edit
Vowels edit
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a | |
Consonants edit
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t̪ | tʲ | k | kʷ | |||
| Affricate | ts | tʂ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | θ | s | ʂ | x | ||
| voiced | β | ð | z | ʐ | ɣ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Lateral | ɭ | |||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||
References edit
- ^ San Vicente Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Beam de Azcona, Rosemary Grace (2004). A Coatlan-Loxicha Zapotec Grammar. University of California, Berkeley.
Further reading edit
- "San Vicente Coatlán Zapotec (zpt)". Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
External links edit