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Zapotec peoples. The Zapotec ( Valley Zapotec: Bën za) are an indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities also exist in neighboring states. The present-day population is estimated at 400,000 to 650,000 [ 1] persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of the native ...
The Zapotec civilization ( Be'ena'a ( Zapotec) "The People"; c. 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley of Oaxaca in Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows that their culture originated at least 2,500 years ago.
The Isthmus Zapotec alphabet in use today was founded in the 1950s, drawing from works going back as far as the 1920s. Until recently the Zapotec languages were only sparsely studied and documented but in recent years Zapotec language has begun to receive serious attention by descriptive linguists (see bibliography).
The Zapotec people are concentrated in Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities exist in neighboring states as well. The present-day population is estimated at approximately 300,000 to 400,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of the native Zapotec languages .
Mitla is the second-most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. [ 1][ 2] The site is located 44 km from the city of Oaxaca, [ 3] in the upper end of the Tlacolula Valley, one of the three cold, high valleys that form the Central Valleys Region of the state. [ 4]
Isthmus Zapotec, also known as Juchitán Zapotec ( native name diidxazá; [2] Spanish: Zapoteco del Istmo ), is a Zapotec language spoken in Tehuantepec and Juchitán de Zaragoza, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. According to the census of 1990 it has about 85,000 native speakers, however this number is rapidly decreasing, as speakers shift to ...
Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD. The Mixtecs ( / ˈmiːstɛks, ˈmiːʃtɛks / ), [ 3] or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec culture was the main Mixtec civilization, which ...
Zapotec. Chatino. Glottolog. zapo1436. The Zapotecan languages are a group of related Oto-Manguean languages which descend from the common proto- Zapotecan language spoken by the Zapotec people during the era of the dominance of Monte Albán . The Zapotecan language group contains the Zapotec languages and the Chatino languages .