Zapotec
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- noun
- /ˈzæpəˌtɛk/
- "It is Chaak to the Maya; for instance, Tlaloc in Central Mexico, Cociyo to the Zapotec."
- speaking only Zapotec
Examples
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Never in front of his cousins, who watched him waiting, or the green-card Oaxacan pickers who spoke more Zapotec than Spanish and reminded him of calves with big brown eyes, sitting in the crowded bus three to a seat, going from vineyard to vineyard.
Fiction book (1994) -
David Tavarez recently filed a dissertation at the University of Chicago that uses sources in Nahuatl and Zapotec, as well as Spanish and Latin, to examine the spiritual conquest from both extirpator and native perspectives.
Academic text (2003) -
So this is actually my dissertation, which is just a record of translated Zapotec language into whistle tone.
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Generated from the success of the danzantes, this new world is Zapotec, with Teotitlán del Valle as its center.
Academic text (1993) -
One of the Malinches is dressed in indigenous garb (not specifically Zapotec, but a generic indigenous dress that is more common in popular images of Mexican Indians than in local culture); the other looks like a modern cowgirl of popular culture.
Academic text (1993) -
Using symbols of the nation-state in the headdress also reduces the distance between Zapotec and Mexican and brings the state into Teotitlán del Valle as part of the known world.
Academic text (1993) -
The most widely spoken languages are the many (sometimes mutually unintelligible) dialects of Zapotec (spoken by approximately 350,000 people within the state) and Mixtec (spoken by approximately 250,000 people).
Academic text (2006) -
Many young people are learning Zapotec to preserve their cultural heritage.
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In Oaxaca, you can hear Zapotec spoken in local markets and community gatherings.
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The linguist studied Zapotec to understand its unique grammatical structure.
Synonyms
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A native language spoken by the Zapotec people in southern Mexico
A native language that the Zapotec people speak in southern Mexico
A group of related languages spoken by the native people of Oaxaca, Mexico
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Zapotec comes from the Nahuatl name Zapoteca, which means 'people of the sapote' and refers to the sapote, a soft fruit tree. The language is called Zapotec because it is the speech of those people.