Yautepec Zapotec

Facts

  • Language: Yautepec Zapotec
  • Alternate names: Northwestern Yautepec Zapotec, Zapoteco de San Bartolo Yautepec
  • Language code: zpb
  • Language family: Otomanguean, Eastern Otomanguean, Popolocan-Zapotecan, Zapotecan, Zapotec (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 310
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Unwritten.

More information:

    Ethnologue list 57 Zapotec languages. INALI gives 62 "variantes" of Zapoteco. The exact number of distinct languages that need to be recognized is unclear. For most linguists the number is much lower, between 4 and 10.