Yatzeche or Zegache Zapotec (Santa Inés Yatzeche Zapotec, Southeastern Zimatlán Zapotec) is a
Zapotec language
The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family and which is spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highland ...
spoken in the
Santa Ana Zegache and
Santa Inés Yatzeche municipalities of
Zimatlán District
Zimatlán District is located in the west of the Valles Centrales Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Municipalities
The district includes the following municipalities:
* Ayoquezco de Aldama
* Ciénega de Zimatlán
* Magdalena Mixtepec
*San ...
of
Oaxaca
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,
Mexico
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.
It is 75% intelligible with
Ocotlán Zapotec.
Tilquiapan Zapotec may be a dialect.
References
External links
OLAC resources in and about the Santa Inés Yatzechi Zapotec languageZapotec Survey completed in Santa Ana Zegache
found in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is a digital repository housed in LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin. AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digi ...
Zapotec languages
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