Langenesis

Oto-Manguean family

Zapotec

1500 CE – today Living

Zapotec (1500 CE – today) is a living Oto-Manguean language. Lineage: Proto-Oto-Manguean → Zapotec.

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Speakers
490K (490,000)
ISO 639-3
zap

A cluster of about 50 mutually unintelligible Zapotecan languages in Oaxaca, shown here as one node. Pre-Columbian Zapotec writing dates back to about 500 BCE.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Oto-Mangueanc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Zapotec1500 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Oto-Manguean.

Sources