Mitla Zapotec

Mitla Zapotec, or Didxsaj, is an Oto-Manguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Guelavia Zapotec is reported to be 75% intelligible, but the reverse is apparently not the case.

Mitla Zapotec has the following consonants:

/f/ is rare in native words.

Vowels contrast in phonation, with a difference between modal phonation, breathy phonation, and creaky phonation. For example

Mitla Zapotec has little noun morphology. Pluralization is indicated by a plural proclitic /re=/, as in the following example

re=guejdx

[re=ge̤dʒ]