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Choápam Zapotec

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Choápam Zapotec
Native toMexico
Regionnorthern Oaxaca, Veracruz
Native speakers
12,000 (2007)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3zpc
Glottologchoa1237
ELPChoapan

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

  1. ^ Choápam Zapotec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)