Choápam Zapotec
Appearance
Choápam Zapotec | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | northern Oaxaca, Veracruz |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2007)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zpc |
Glottolog | choa1237 |
ELP | Choapan |
Choápam Zapotec (Zapoteco de Choápam; in Veracruz Zapoteco de San Juan Comaltepec) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Phonology
Consonants
Stops [k]*, [g], [p], [b], [t], [d]
* Conventionally transcribed /r/.
Sibilant fricatives [s], [z], [ʃ], [ʒ]
Affricates [d͡z], [d͡ʒ], [t͡s], [t͡ʃ]
Sonorants [m], [n], [l], [r]*
* [r] has the voiceless allophone [ṛ] when in a nasal segment, e.g rná1baˀ2, [ṛnábaˀ] (I ask)
References
- ^ Choápam Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)