Amatlán Zapotec

Amatlán Zapotec
(San Cristóbal Amatlán)
Dizhze
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 2000)
2,000 monolinguals
Oto-Manguean
Dialects
  • San Cristóbal Amatlán
  • San Francisco Logueche
Language codes
ISO 639-3zpo
Glottologamat1238
ELPAmatec Zapotec (shared)

Amatlán Zapotec (Northeastern Miahuatlán Zapotec) is a Zapotec language spoken in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, in the municipalities of San Cristóbal Amatlán and San Francisco Logueche, in the district of Miahuatlán. Although the towns' residents speak different dialects, the dialects are mutually intelligible.