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- 1 2 Elotepec Zapotec at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ "Villa Sola de Vega (Municipio), Oaxaca Mexico". nuestro-mexico.com. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
- ↑ "Elotepec Zapotec Language Survey". OLAC. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
