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 are spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of ...

spoken in the

Santa Ana Zegache Santa Ana Zegache is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 26.79 km². It is part of the Ocotlán District Ocotlán District is located in the south of the Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Valles ...

and

Santa Inés Yatzeche Santa Inés Yatzeche is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southeastern Mexico and is the third smallest municipality in Oaxaca behind Santa Cruz Amilpas and Natividad. History The community, which lies on the Atoyac River in the southern Val ...

municipalities of

Zimatlán District Zimatlán District is located in the west of the Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Valles Centrales Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Municipalities The district includes the following municipalities: *Ayoquezco de Aldama *Ciénega de Zimatlán ...

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

. It is 75% intelligible with

Ocotlán Zapotec Ocotlán Zapotec (San Antonio Ocotlán Zapotec, ''Ocotlán Oeste Zapotec,''That is, Western Ocotlan Zapotec. Eastern Ocotlan Zapotec is Chichicapan Zapotec. ''Zapoteco del Poniente de Ocotlán)'' is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico Me ...

. Tilquiapan Zapotec may be a dialect.

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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 {{Oto-Manguean-lang-stub