Rincón Zapotec
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| Rincón Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| Didza Xidza | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | northern Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (41,000 cited 1990–2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:zar – Rincónzsr – Southern Rincónzcd – Las Delicias |
| Glottolog | rinc1236 |
| ELP | Rincón |
Rincón Zapotec (Northern Villa Alta Zapotec, Nexitzo) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Temaxcalapan dialect may be distinct enough to be considered a separate language. The next closest language is Choápam Zapotec, with 65% intelligibility.[1]
Las Delicias and Yagallo have approximately 75% similarity.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | æ | a |
Consonants
[edit]| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | |||
| voiced | dz | dʒ | ||||
| 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
[edit]- 1 2 Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Las Delicias at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑
- 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
External links
[edit]- Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1881). Doctrina cristiana, traducida de la lengua castellana en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras adiciones útiles y necesarias para la educacion católica y excitacion á la devocion cristiana. Retrieved 2014-03-09.
- Ripalda, Gerónimo de (1687). "Doctrina christiana, traducida de la lengua castellana, en lengua zapoteca nexitza. Con otras addiciones utiles y necessarias para la educacion catholica y excitacion a la devocion christiana". Retrieved 2014-03-09.
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