Zapotec languages-speaking communities are found in the neighboring states of Puebla, Veracruz, and Guerrero.
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10 Facts About Zapotec languages
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Zapotec languages fall into four broad geographic divisions: Zapoteco de la Sierra Norte, Valley Zapotec, Zapoteco de la Sierra Sur, and Isthmus Zapotec.
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Proto-Zapotec languages had disyllabic roots; the vowel of the second syllable could be any one of the inventory of vowels.
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Santa Catarina Albarradas Zapotec languages was not listed, and presumably subsumed under Albarradas Zapotec languages, but intelligibility is one-way.
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Some varieties of Zapotec languages have a contrast between alveopalatal fricatives and retroflex fricatives.
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Unfortunately, materials on Zapotec languages vary widely in the quality of their tonal description and analysis.
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One example is Texmelucan Zapotec languages, which has four contrasting tones: three contour tones and one level tone, as shown in the figure.
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Zapotec languages are VSO, as in the following example from San Dionisio Ocotepec Zapotec :.
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Until recently the Zapotec languages were only sparsely studied and documented but in recent years Zapotec language has begun to receive serious attention by descriptive linguists .
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Contemporary literature in Zapotec languages has been produced by Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo and Felipe Lopez, among others.
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