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Zapotec

Syllabification: (Za·po·tec)
Pronunciation: /ˈzäpəˌtek/
Definition of Zapotec

noun (plural same or Zapotecs)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people living in and around Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
  • 2the Otomanguean language of the Zapotec, with some 300,000 speakers.

adjective

  • relating to the Zapotec or their language.

Origin:

from Spanish zapoteco, from Nahuatl tzapoteca, plural of tzapotecatl, literally 'person of the place of the sapodilla'

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