Rincón Zapotec

Rincón Zapotec
Rincón Zapotec
Native to	Mexico
Region	northern Oaxaca
Native speakers	(41,000 cited 1990–2000)
Language family	Oto-Manguean Zapotecan Zapotec Sierra Norte Rincon Rincón Zapotec; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; zar – Rincón; zsr – Southern Rincón
Glottolog	rinc1236 Rincon; sout3004 Southern Rincon
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]

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
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ	ʔ
Affricate	voiceless		ts	tʃ
Affricate	voiced		dz	dʒ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ	x
Fricative	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[]

^ ^a ^b Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Rincón 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[]

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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[e18-1] Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Southern Rincón at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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