| Zapotecan | |
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| Geographic distribution | Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Linguistic classification | Oto-Manguean
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| Glottolog | zapo1436 |
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.
The Zapotecan language group contains the Zapotec languages and the Chatino languages.
Further reading
[edit]- Kaufman, Terrence. 2016. Proto-Sapotek(an) reconstructions. Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica.
- Kaufman, Terrence. 2015. A typologically odd phonological reconstruction for proto-Sapotekan: stem-final *k. Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica.
References
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