| Zaniza Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| (Santa María Zaniza) | |
| Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (770 cited 1990 census)[1] |
| 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
| 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 2 Zaniza Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Egland, Bartholomew, & Cruz Ramos. 1983 [1978]. La inteligibilidad interdialectal en México: Resultados de algunos sondeos.
- ↑ Operstein, Natalie. "Spanish Loanwords and the Historical Phonology of Zaniza Zapotec" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-07.
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- 1 2 Natalie, Operstein (2015). Zaniza Zapotec. Muenchen. ISBN 9783862886593. OCLC 928993315.
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- 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. 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