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Yatzachi Zapotec

Yatzachi Zapotec is an Otomanguean language spoken in United States and Mexico, by about 2,500 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Yatzachi Zapotec is an Oto-Manguean language of the Zapotecan branch, spoken in northern central Oaxaca, Mexico. 2,500 self-reported being Yatzachi speakers for the 1990 Mexican census, but the actual number of speakers is unknown. The Yatzachi dialect belongs to the Villa Alta group of Zapotec dialects, of which the main dialect is San Bartolomé Zoogocho. The degree of mutual intelligibility between Yatzachi and the San Bartolomé Zoogocho dialect is estimated to be around 90 percent.

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Words in Yatzachi Zapotec

MeaningWordRomanization
personben37*
namela*
eyelao*
earyidnag*
noseSi7in*
toothley*
tongueloZ37*
handna7*
bloodCen*
boneZit*
skinyid*
kneebjekwSib*
breastSiZ37*
liverSjet3*
waternis
fireyi7*
sunbgiS*
starbelXw*
stoneyeX*
mountainya7a*
treeyag*
leaflag37*
nightyel*
dogbeko7*
fishbel*
horsecabey
lousebeS37*
oneto*
twojop3*
Inada7*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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