| Zaniza Zapotec | |
| Also Known As: | (Santa María Zaniza) |
| Nativename: | Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco |
| State: | Mexico |
| Region: | Oaxaca |
| Speakers: | 770 |
| Date: | 1990 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Oto-Manguean |
| Fam2: | Zapotecan |
| Fam3: | Zapotec |
| Fam4: | Papabuco |
| Iso3: | zpw |
| Glotto: | zani1235 |
| Glottorefname: | 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,[1] so this may be a question of familiarity.)
The language is spoken in Santa María Zaniza, Oaxaca.[2] As of 2003, the language had about 400 fluent speakers.[3] It is also spoken in Santiago Textitlán.
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||||
| Glide | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||||
Zaniza Zapotec has five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/, phonemic vowel nasalization, and a distinction between modal and laryngealized vowels.
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.