zapoteco de la Sierra sur, noroeste

Language variantFamily Oto-mangue

Risk grade
High

INALI 2012, on the 2000 census

Rank among the 364 variants (1 = highest risk)
84
Group
Glottocode
zapo1437Its group's; the variant has none of its own.

Autonym

As recorded in INALI's Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008), with its phonetic transcription.

AutonymTranscription (IPA)Transcription status
risna[ɾiːsna]Extracted from the catalog
rixhna[ɾiːʃna]Extracted from the catalog
How to read the transcription
[…]Extracted from the catalog
[…]*Corrected by hand from the page
?In review: not published yet

Transcriptions set in Charis SIL, © SIL International, under the SIL Open Font License

Risk grade

INALI (2012), calculated from the 2000 census. The figures in this section are from that census, not from 2020.

Speakers
849
Speakers in localities where 30% or more speak it
545
Localities
21
Localities where 30% or more speak it
5
Proportion of speakers, as INALI publishes it
38.85%
Proportion of child speakers aged 5 to 14
11.19%
Name in the risk publication
zapoteco de la Sierra sur, noroeste
How it was linked to the catalog
By matching localities

Where it is spoken

Localities the 2008 catalog assigns to this variant, by state.

StateMunicipalitiesLocalities
Oaxaca322
Total322

INALI, Catálogo de las Lenguas Indígenas Nacionales (2008)