The Zapotecan languages are a group of related
Oto-Manguean languages which descend from the common
proto-Zapotecan language spoken by the
Zapotec people during the era of the dominance of
Monte Albán
Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W). The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain i ...
.
The Zapotecan language group contains the
Zapotec languages
The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous languages of Mesoamerica, indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean language family and are spoken by th ...
and the
Chatino languages.
Further reading
*Kaufman, Terrence. 2016.
Proto-Sapotek(an) reconstructions'
*Kaufman, Terrence. 2015.
A typologically odd phonological reconstruction for proto-Sapotekan: stem-final *k'
References
Mesoamerican languages
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