Global InformationYatzachi Zapotec information
| Yatzachi Zapotec | |
|---|---|
| Dižə'əxon | |
| Pronunciation | [diʒəˤˈʐon][1] |
| Region | Oaxaca in Mexico |
Native speakers | (2,500 cited 1990 census)[2] |
Language family | Oto-Manguean
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| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zav |
| Glottolog | yatz1235 |
 Zapotecan languages in Oaxaca. The Yatzachi dialect is found in the Villalteco region. | |
Yatzachi Zapotec is an Oto-Manguean language of the Zapotecan branch, spoken in northern central Oaxaca, Mexico. 2,500 self-reported being Yatzachi speakers for the 1990 Mexican census, but the actual number of speakers is unknown. The Yatzachi dialect belongs to the Villa Alta group of Zapotec dialects, of which the main dialect is San Bartolomé Zoogocho. The degree of mutual intelligibility between Yatzachi and the San Bartolomé Zoogocho dialect is estimated to be around 90 percent.
- ^ Butler (1997:528)
- ^ Yatzachi Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)