| Loxicha Zapotec | |
| Nativename: | Diste |
| State: | Mexico |
| Region: | south Oaxaca |
| Speakers: | 75,000 |
| Date: | 2000 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Zapotecan |
| Fam3: | Zapotec |
| Fam4: | Sierra Sur |
| Fam5: | Miahuatlan |
| Dia1: | San Agustín Loxicha |
| Dia2: | San Bartolomé Loxicha |
| Dia3: | San Andrés Paxtlán |
| Dia4: | San Miguel Suchixtepec |
| Iso3: | ztp |
| Glotto: | loxi1235 |
| Glottorefname: | Loxicha Zapotec |
| Elp: | 10954 |
| Elpname: | Coatec Zapotec (shared) |
Loxicha Zapotec (Western Pochutla Zapotec) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of the most populous varieties of Zapotec, and the majority of speakers are monolingual.
Not all varieties of Zapotec from towns named "Loxicha" are part of Loxicha Zapotec. San Baltázar Loxicha Zapotec, which includes Santa Catarina Loxicha, is a distinct language.
| Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a | ||
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Uvular | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kʷ | ||||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | ||||||
| prenasal | ⁿdʒ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (ɸʷ) | θ | (s) | ʃ | χ | |||
| voiced | z | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | ||||||
| Rhotic | r | ||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||||