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Güilá Zapotec

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5626813 ↗
Source-derived summary

Güilá Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Pablo Güilá, Zapoteco de San Dionisio Ocotepec) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is spoken in the town of San Pablo Güilá, Tlacolula District, Oaxaca, Mexico.

A closely related but not identical form of Zapotec is spoken in the adjacent town of San Dionisio Ocotepec.

References

Sources

Arellanes, Francisco. 2009. El sistema fonológico y las propriedades fonéticas del zapoteco de San Pablo Güilá. Descripción y análisis formal. Tesis doctoral. Colegio de México.

Broadwell, George A. 2001.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Güilá Zapotec” as language. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Güilá, Zapotec and language can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as language. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5626813. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Güilá 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.