Zaniza Zapotec

Zaniza Zapotec
(Santa María Zaniza) Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Native speakers	(770 cited 1990 census) [1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Zapotec Papabuco Zaniza Zapotec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zpw
Glottolog	zani1235
ELP	Zaniza Zapotec

Zaniza Zapotec (Zapoteco de Santa María Zaniza) is an Oto-Manguean language of western Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of several Zapotec languages called Papabuco. It has only 10% intelligibility with Texmelucan Zapotec, its closest important relative. (Speakers of the nearly extinct Elotepec Zapotec have 70% understanding of Zaniza, but it is not known if the reverse is true, ^[2] so this may be a question of familiarity.)

The language is spoken in Santa María Zaniza, Oaxaca. ^[3] As of 2003, the language had about 400 fluent speakers. ^[4] It is also spoken in Santiago Textitlán. ^[1]

Phonology

Zaniza Zapotec Consonants ^[5]

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
						plain	lab.	plain	lab.
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Plosive/ Affricate	fortis	p	t		ʧ	k	kʷ
	lenis	b	d		ʤ	g	gʷ
Fricative	fortis	f	s	ʂ	ʃ			h	hʷ
	lenis		z	ʐ	ʒ
Rhotic			ɾ
Lateral			l		ʎ
Glide		w			j

Zaniza Zapotec has five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/, phonemic vowel nasalization, and a distinction between modal and laryngealized vowels. ^[5]

Tone

Zaniza Zapotec words contrast low, mid, and high tones on stressed syllables. Unstressed syllables, apart from a few pronominal enclitics, do not bear contrastive tone.

References

1. Zaniza Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Egland, Bartholomew, & Cruz Ramos. 1983 [1978]. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeos.
3. Operstein, Natalie. "Spanish Loanwords and the Historical Phonology of Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-07.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
4. "Graduate Student Profile - Natalie Operstein (Indo-European Studies)". UCLA Graduate Division. Archived from the original on 2013-09-10. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
5. Natalie, Operstein (2015). Zaniza Zapotec. Muenchen. ISBN   9783862886593. OCLC   928993315.

• Operstein, Natalie (2002). "Positional Verbs and Relational Nouns in Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Proceedings from the fourth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 11. pp. 60–70. Retrieved 2013-09-07.

External links

• Kaufman, Terence. "Zaniza Zapotec". El Archivo de los lenguas indigenas de Latinoamerica. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
• "Zapotec, Zaniza language - Audio Bible stories and lessons". Global Recordings Network. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
• "Mexico - Keyboards - Zaniza Zapotec". Tavultesoft. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
• OLAC resources in and about the Zaniza Zapotec language