Rincón Zapotec

Rincón Zapotec (Northern Villa Alta Zapotec, Nexitzo) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Rincón Zapotec
Native toMexico
Regionnorthern Oaxaca
Native speakers
(41,000 cited 1990–2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
zar  Rincón
zsr  Southern Rincón
Glottologrinc1236  Rincon[2]
sout3004  Southern Rincon[3]

Temaxcalapan dialect may be distinct enough to be considered a separate language. The next closest language is Choápam Zapotec, with 65% intelligibility.[1]

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid e o
Open æ a

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Affricate voiceless ts
voiced dz
Fricative voiceless s ʃ x
voiced z ʒ
Nasal n
Rhotic ɾ
Approximant l j

Sounds such as /f k ʎ m ɲ r v w/ only occur in loanwords from Spanish. A double consonant ll occurs as a geminated /lː/ rather than a palatalized ll from Spanish.

References

  1. Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rincon Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Southern Rincon Zapotec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Alleman, Vera Mae, compiler. 1952. Vocabulario zapoteco del Rincón. Mexico City: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
  • Earl, Robert. 1968. "Rincon Zapotec clauses." International Journal of American Linguistics 34: 269-74.
  • Earl, Robert. 2018. "Gramática del zapoteco de Rincón". Mexico


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