Santo Domingo Coatlán Zapotec

Coatlán Zapotec (Western Miahuatlán Zapotec) is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico. It uses linguolabial sounds as onomatopoeia.

Coatlán Zapotec
(Santo Domingo Coatlán)
RegionOaxaca in Mexico
Native speakers
(500 cited 1992)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3zps
Glottologcoat1243
ELPCoatec Zapotec (shared)

It is also known as San Miguel Zapotec and Zapoteco de Santa María Coatlán, to distinguish it from Zapoteco de San Vicente Coatlán. it is the only language with linguolabial click but it's only for onomatopoeias.

References

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  1. ^ Coatlán Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Sources

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  • Beam de Azcona, Rosemary G. 2004. A Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec Grammar. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.
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