Ixtlán Zapotec

Ixtlán Zapotec
Ixtlán Zapotec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Northern Oaxaca
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1990 & 2000 censuses)
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Zapotec Sierra Norte Sierra Juárez Ixtlán Zapotec; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Yareni; Atepec; Central; Sierra Juárez;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; zae – Yareni (Western); zaa – Central Ixtlán
Glottolog	yare1249 Yareni; sier1250 Sierra de Juarez
ELP	Ixtlán (shared)

Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility.^[1] They are:

Yareni (Western Ixtlán, Etla Zapotec), spoken in Santa Ana Yareni.^[2]
Atepec (Macuiltianguis Zapotec), spoken in San Juan Atepec and San Pablo Macuiltianguis.
Central Ixtlan
Sierra de Juárez

Yavesía Zapotec (Southeastern Ixtlán) is somewhat more divergent.

Yareni Zapotec speakers can communicate with speakers of related Zapotec variants in the towns of Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez, San Miguel Aloapam, and San Isidro Aloápam (Aloápam Zapotec).^[2]

References

Foreman, John. 2006. The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec. Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA.
Nellis, Neil and Jane Goodner Nellis. 1983. Diccionario Zapoteco de Juarez. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Mexico.
Bartholomew, Doris A. 1983. Grammatica Zapoteca, in Neil Nellis and Jane Goodner Nellis Diccionario Zapoteco de Juarez Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. Mexico.
Bickmore, Lee S. and George A. Broadwell. 1998. High tone docking in Sierra Juárez Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics, 64:37-67.
Gibbs, William P. 1977. Discourse elements in Sierra de Juarez Zapotec. M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.