Zapotec (Yatzachi)

WALS coordinates: 17° 12′ N, 96° 12′ W

spoken in Mexico

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Zapotec
Routledge:
  • Sapoteko
Other:
ISO 639-3:

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ID Feature Value Area References  
37A Definite Articles Definite affix Nominal Categories
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52A Comitatives and Instrumentals Mixed Nominal Categories
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53A Ordinal Numerals First/one-th, two-th, three-th Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect prefixes Verbal Categories
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74A Situational Possibility Verbal constructions Verbal Categories
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75A Epistemic Possibility Affixes on verbs Verbal Categories
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76A Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking No overlap Verbal Categories
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82A Order of Subject and Verb VS Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Prepositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Noun-Genitive Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Noun-Demonstrative Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Initial Word Order
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93A Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions Initial interrogative phrase Word Order
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94A Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause Mixed Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Prepositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun VO and NAdj Word Order
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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