Rincón Zapotec
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Rincón Zapotec | |
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Didza Xidza | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | northern Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (41,000 cited 1990–2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:zar – Rincónzsr – Southern Rincónzcd – Las Delicias |
Glottolog | rinc1236 |
ELP | Rincón |
Rincón Zapotec (Northern Villa Alta Zapotec, Nexitzo) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Temaxcalapan dialect may be distinct enough to be considered a separate language. The next closest language is Choápam Zapotec, with 65% intelligibility.[1]
Las Delicias and Yagallo have approximately 75% similarity.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | æ | a |
Consonants
[edit]Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | |||
voiced | dz | dʒ | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | x | ||
voiced | z | ʒ | ||||
Nasal | n | |||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | l | j |
Sounds such as /f k ʎ m ɲ r v w/ only occur in loanwords from Spanish. A double consonant ll occurs as a geminated /lː/ rather than a palatalized ll from Spanish.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Las Delicias at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ [1]
- Alleman, Vera Mae, compiler. 1952. Vocabulario zapoteco del Rincón. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
- Earl, Robert. 1968. "Rincon Zapotec clauses." International Journal of American Linguistics 34: 269-74.
- Earl, Robert. 2018. "Gramática del zapoteco de Rincón". Mexico
External links
[edit]- Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1881). Doctrina cristiana, traducida de la lengua castellana en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras adiciones útiles y necesarias para la educacion católica y excitacion á la devocion cristiana. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
- Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1687). "Doctrina christiana, traducida de la lengua castellana, en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras addiciones utiles y necessarias para la educacion catholica y excitacion a la devocion christiana". Retrieved 2014-03-09.