Guelavía Zapotec
| Tlacolula Valley Zapotec | |
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| Guelavia Zapotec | |
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | central Oaxaca |
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Native speakers
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(29,000 cited 1990 census) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | sanj1284 |
Tlacolula Valley Zapotec or Valley Zapotec, 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. The languages in this group include:
Teotitlán del Valle dialect is divergent, 59% intelligible to San Juan Guelavía proper.
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 [1] to local leaders. It was estimated that about 100 elderly speakers of this Zapotecan language remain.
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