Tejalapan Zapotec Explained

Tejalapan Zapotec
Also Known As:(San Felipe Tejalápam)
State:Mexico
Region:Oaxaca
Ethnicity: people in the town (no date, but probably 1990 census[1])
Speakers:50
Date:2000
Ref:e25
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Oto-Manguean
Fam2:Zapotecan
Fam3:Zapotec
Fam4:Mazaltepecan?
Iso3:ztt
Glotto:teja1235
Glottorefname:Tejalapan Zapotec

Tejalapan Zapotec (Zapoteco de Tejalápam) is a nearly extinct Zapotecan language of the Mexican state of Oaxaca (San Felipe Tejalapam). It may be closest to the otherwise divergent Mazaltepec Zapotec.

Notes and References

  1. going by other Zapotec entries in Ethnologue