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Amatlán Zapotec
(San Cristóbal Amatlán)
Dizhze
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
10,000 (2002)[1]
30% monolingual (2000?)[2]
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
  • San Cristóbal Amatlán
  • San Francisco Logueche
Language codes
ISO 639-3zpo
Glottologamat1238

Amatlán Zapotec (Northeastern Miahuatlán Zapotec) is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, in the municipalities of San Cristóbal Amatlán and San Francisco Logueche, in the district of Miahuatlán. Although the two towns are considered to have different dialects, residents of one can understand speakers from the other town.[3]

References

  1. ^ Amatlán Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Amatlán Zapotec at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Riggs, Sylvia. "Amatlán Zapotec (zpo)". Summer Institute of Linguistics in Mexico. Retrieved 2014-03-10.