The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family, spoken by the Zapotec people of the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico. A 2020 census reported nearly half a million speakers, most in the state of Oaxaca, with further Zapotec-speaking communities in the neighboring states of Puebla, Veracruz and Guerrero and, through labor migration, in the United States, particularly California and New Jersey. Most Zapotec-speaking communities are highly bilingual in Spanish.
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Regionsouthwestern-central highlands of Mexico, chiefly Oaxaca, with communities in Puebla, Veracruz and Guerrero 2 Speaker Count Browse and compare
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1. Glottolog: Zapotec (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 57
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of Mexico
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The 2020 census reported nearly half a million speakers
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