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Much of Zapotec social life is strongly segregated by sex. Men and women often work separately, coming together to eat in the morning and evening, and during ritual occasions, they remain separate except when dancing." [10] The purity of women is highly valued and their sexual and social autonomy can be hindered as a result. "Most women in the ...
Zapotec is a tone language, which means that the meaning of a word is often determined by voice pitch (tonemes), essential for understanding the meaning of different words. The Zapotec languages features up to 4 distinct tonemes: high, low, rising and falling. [13]
Ixtlán Zapotec is a Zapotec dialect cluster of Oaxaca, Mexico. Varieties share about 80% mutual intelligibility. [1] They are: Yareni (Western Ixtlán, Etla Zapotec), spoken in Santa Ana Yareni. [2] Atepec (Macuiltianguis Zapotec), spoken in San Juan Atepec and San Pablo Macuiltianguis. Central Ixtlan; Sierra de Juárez
Zapotec peoples, contemporary indigenous peoples of Mexico Zapotecan languages , a group of related Oto-Manguean languages (including Zapotec languages), of central Mesoamerica Zapotec language (Jalisco) , an extinct language from Jalisco state in Mexico, unrelated (despite its name) to the group of Zapotec languages.
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Download QR code; Print/export ... ISO 639-3: zpf: Glottolog: sanp1261: ELP: Tlacolula (shared) Quiatoni Zapotec (San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec, Eastern Tlacolula ...
The Zapotec civilization (700 BCE − 1521 CE) — an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Oaxaca Valley of Mesoamerica. Zapotec archaeological sites are in present-day Oaxaca state of southwestern México.
Quioquitani Zapotec, or Quioquitani-Quierí Zapotec (Zapoteco de Quioquitani y Quierí), natively Tiits Së, [2] is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. San Pedro Leapi Zapotec is divergent, and perhaps a separate language.