Say Hello in the Zapotec Language

Learning Zapotec

• Zapotec Dictionary (PDF)
• Zapotec Words
• Isthmus Zapotec Pronunciation
• Zapotec Animal Words
• Zapotec Colors
• Zapotec Numbers
• Zapotec Writing
• Zapotec Writing: Knowledge, Power, and Memory
• Downloadable Audio Files from Zapotec Course at UCSD
• Zapotecan Language Family
• Yalalag Zapotec
• Vowels in Amatlan Zapotec
• Fortis Consonants in Amatlan Zapotec
• Fricatives in Amatlan Zapotec
• The San Juan Bautista Comotepec Zapotec Alphabet
• Chichicapam Zapotec
• High Pitch as a Mark of Respect in Lachixio Zapotec

Zapotec Culture

• The Zapotecs of Mesoamerica
• Zapotec
• The Zapotecs
• Zapotec: Languages of the World

Who Can You Talk To?

There are between 12 and 60 different Zapotec languages (there is some dispute about which are dialects, and which are distinct languages.) All together there are at least 400,000 speakers of Zapotec languages in Mexico today. While most speakers of Zapotec are also Spanish-speakers, there are many who only speak Zapotec. Most Zapotec speakers live in Mexico in the state of Oaxaca. Now you can say hello to more than 400,000 people!

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