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Ayoquezco Zapotec

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4831570 ↗
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Ayoquesco Zapotec (Western Ejutla Zapotec, Zapoteco de Santa María Ayoquezco) is a small Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Ayoquesco Zapotec (Dísè) is spoken in Santa María Ayoquezco and Santa Cruz Nexila, around 50% intelligible to San Andres Zabache speakers.

References

MacLaury, Robert E. 1970. Ayoquesco Zapotec: Ethnography, phonology, and lexicon. MA thesis, University of the Americas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ayoquezco Zapotec” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.