Zaachila Zapotec (San Raymundo Jalpan Zapotec) is a small

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 ...

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 perhaps a dialect of

Yatzeche Zapotec Yatzeche or Zegache Zapotec (Santa Inés Yatzeche Zapotec, Southeastern Zimatlán Zapotec) is a Zapotec language spoken in the Santa Ana Zegache and Santa Inés Yatzeche municipalities of Zimatlán District of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is 75% intellig ...

, which is 85% intelligible to Zaachila speakers. Tilquiapan Zapotec is 75% intelligible, 72% of

San Juan Guelavía San Juan Guelavía is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 17.86 km2. It is part of the Tlacolula District in the east of the Valles Centrales Region. As of 2005, the municipality had ...

to Zaachila speakers. Zaachila Zapotec is spoken in San Raymundo Jalpan, south

Oaxaca City Oaxaca de Juárez (), or simply Oaxaca (Valley Zapotec languages, Zapotec: ''Ndua''), is the capital and largest city of the eponymous Administrative divisions of Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the municipal seat for the surrounding munici ...

, past Xoxo,

Zaachila Zaachila (the Zapotec name; Nahuatl: ''Teotzapotlan''; Mixtec: ''Ñuhu Tocuisi'') was a powerful Mesoamerican city in what is now Oaxaca, Mexico, from the city of Oaxaca. The city is named after Zaachila Yoo, the Zapotec ruler, in the late 14 ...

, San Bartolo Coyotepec, San Pablo Cuatro Venados, and

Santa María Coyotepec Santa María Coyotepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km2. It is part of the Centro District Centro District is located in the Valles Centrales Region of the State of Oaxaca, Mexi ...

. It is not written.

References

External links

OLAC resources in and about Zapotec, Zaachila
Zapotec languages {{Oto-Manguean-lang-stub