Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec

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Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
 (100 cited 1990 census) [1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zoo
Glottolog asun1236 [2]

Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec (North Central Zimatlan Zapotec) is a nearly extinct Oto-Manguean language of western Oaxaca, Mexico. It is a divergent Zapotec language, 22% intelligible with Ayoquesco Zapotec, the most similar other language. [1]

Oto-Manguean languages language family

Oto-Manguean languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean branch of the family, which is now extinct, was spoken as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Oto-Manguean is widely viewed as a proven language family. However, this status has been recently challenged.

Oaxaca State of Mexico

Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, make up the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 570 municipalities, of which 418 are governed by the system of usos y costumbres with recognized local forms of self-governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca de Juárez.

Mexico country in the southern portion of North America

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.

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References

  1. 1 2 Asunción Mixtepec Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Asuncion Mixtepec Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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