Did you know Mixtepec Zapotec is threatened?

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mixtepec Zapotec, Zapotec (Mixtepec), Zapoteco (Mixtepec), Southern Mountain Zapotec, Miahuatec, Miahuatlan, Zapotec, Eastern Zapoteco, Zapotec, Mixtepec, Zapoteco de San Juan Mixtepec
CLASSIFICATION		Otomanguean, Zapotecan
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		zpm
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Ethnologue list 57 Zapotec languages. INALI gives 62 "variantes" of Zapoteco. The exact number of distinct languages that need to be recognized is unclear. For most linguists the number is much lower, between 4 and 10.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1991).

	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger		UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	14	10-99		Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		16.2666,-96.3666
0199255911		2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures	Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.							16.3333333333,-96.3333333333
			World Oral Literature Project				http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		7,000	1000-9999		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	7,000	1000-9999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1991).	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Mexico;

Mixtepec Zapotec