The Valley Zapotec language, casually spoken | Wikitongues

The Valley Zapotec language, also called Tlacolula Valley Zapotec and Dizhsa, is a variety of the Zapotec languages, which are spoken by as many as 490,000 people, primarily in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The speaker ‪@rodrigogarcia4591‬, is a musician and songwriter.

Note: an earlier version of this description mislabeled this video as Tejalapam Zapotec.

This video was recorded by Nicholas Biniaz-Harris in San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca, Mexico, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact [email protected].

More from Wikipedia: "Tlacolula Valley Zapotec or Valley Zapotec, known by its regional name Dizhsa, and formerly known by the varietal name Guelavia Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tlacolula Valley Zapotec is a cluster of Zapotec languages spoken in the western Tlacolula Valley, which show varying degrees of mutual intelligibility. All varieties of Valley Zapotec are endangered. The languages in this group include: Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, Tlacolula de Matamoros Zapotec, San Juan Guelavía Zapotec, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya Zapotec, and San Juan Teitipac Zapotec. Teotitlán del Valle dialect is divergent, 59% intelligible to San Juan Guelavía proper. Valley Zapotec is also spoken in the city of Oaxaca, capital of the state of Oaxaca. In April 2014, linguist Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, along with students from Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, visited Tlacolula de Matamoros to present an online Tlacolula Valley Zapotec talking dictionary to local leaders. It was estimated that about 100 elderly speakers of this Zapotecan language remain. Tlacolula Valley Zapotec is a VSO language."