Ixtlán Zapotec should not be confused with Southeastern Ixtlán Zapotec.
| Ixtlán Zapotec | |
| State: | Mexico |
| Region: | Northern Oaxaca |
| Speakers: | 7,000 |
| Date: | 1990 & 2000 censuses |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Zapotecan |
| Fam3: | Zapotec |
| Fam4: | Sierra Norte |
| Fam5: | Sierra Juárez |
| Dia1: | Yareni |
| Dia2: | Atepec |
| Dia3: | Central |
| Dia4: | Sierra Juárez |
| Lc1: | zae |
| Ld1: | Yareni (Western) |
| Lc2: | zaa |
| Ld2: | Central Ixtlán |
| Glotto: | yare1249 |
| Glottoname: | Yareni |
| Glottorefname: | Yareni Zapotec |
| Glotto2: | sier1250 |
| Glottoname2: | Sierra de Juarez |
| Glottorefname2: | Sierra de Juarez Zapotec |
| Elp: | 8749 |
| Elpname: | Ixtlán (shared) |
Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility. They are:
Yavesía Zapotec (Southeastern Ixtlán) is somewhat more divergent.
Yareni Zapotec speakers can communicate with speakers of related Zapotec variants in the towns of Teococuilco de Marcos Pérez, San Miguel Aloapam, and San Isidro Aloápam (Aloápam Zapotec).[1]