The Valley Zapotec language, casually spoken | Wikitongues

The Valley Zapotec language, also called Tlacolula Valley Zapotec and Dizhsa, is a variety of the Zapotec languages, which are spoken by as many as 490,000 people, primarily in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. The speaker ‪@rodrigogarcia4591‬, is a musician and songwriter.
Note: an earlier version of this description mislabeled this video as Tejalapam Zapotec.
This video was recorded by Nicholas Biniaz-Harris in San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca, Mexico, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. To download a copy, please contact [e-mail].
More from Wikipedia: "Tlacolula Valley Zapotec or Valley Zapotec, known by its regional name Dizhsa, and formerly known by the varietal name Guelavia Zapotec (Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía) is a Zapotec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Tlacolula Valley Zapotec is a cluster of Zapotec languages spoken in the western Tlacolula Valley, which show varying degrees of mutual intelligibility. All varieties of Valley Zapotec are endangered. The languages in this group include: Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec, San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, Tlacolula de Matamoros Zapotec, San Juan Guelavía Zapotec, San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya Zapotec, and San Juan Teitipac Zapotec. Teotitlán del Valle dialect is divergent, 59% intelligible to San Juan Guelavía proper. Valley Zapotec is also spoken in the city of Oaxaca, capital of the state of Oaxaca. In April 2014, linguist Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, along with students from Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges, visited Tlacolula de Matamoros to present an online Tlacolula Valley Zapotec talking dictionary to local leaders. It was estimated that about 100 elderly speakers of this Zapotecan language remain. Tlacolula Valley Zapotec is a VSO language."

[@jaygutierrez946]

My dad passed two years ago and his native tongue is this beautiful language. Makes me happy to hear it again.

[@ConnorGhostHeart]

I like the sound of this language. Thanks for sharing as always, wikitongues!

[@EliasRPolo]

Falso no es zapoteco de tejalapam

[@Xochiyolotl]

I like the sound of it. It has a suite and please in cadence.

[@EliasRPolo]

Falso no es zapoteco de tejalapam

[@Xochiyolotl]

@@EliasRPolo entonces, ¿qué es? Por lo menos si es una variante del zapoteco, ¿no?

[@EliasRPolo]

@@Xochiyolotl sí, es una variante de zapoteco pero no es zapoteco de tejalápam. Aparte el zapoteco de tejalápam sólo se habla en Oaxaca y no en veracruz. Mucha información falsa.

[@Xochiyolotl]

@@EliasRPolo entonces, mi recomendación es que lo escriba como comentario principal y no como una respuesta al mío porque yo dudo seriamente que el autor del canal vaya a verlo aquí. Sin duda es un error no una falsificación deliberada.

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní.

[@thedevil1667]

I love this channel! You guys dont happen to have any video on romani do you? Seeing romani would be incredibly interesting

[@solinvictus7582]

Imagine not being able to use any form of search function in 2023.... humanity is doomed

[@jonathanamendoza3033]

Que hermoso😮❤

[@hectorquinones5579]

Wow

[@Cybernaut551]

Xtiuzu'u! 🙏

[@EliasRPolo]

NO ES ZAPOTECO DE TEJALAPAM, INFORMACION FALSA

[@sid300e]

Entonces Cual idioma?

[@Chilam.]

Que es entonces?

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní.

[@EliasRPolo]

FALSE, THIS NOT TEJALAPAM ZAPOTEC.

[@sirsnek6562]

what is it then

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

It was an error, they already apologized about their mistake sir.

[@crow_feather]

What a beautiful language! It's fascinating how different it sounds from Spanish, despite coming from a valley in a country where Spanish is the native language!

[@kirat5855]

Spanish isn’t the native language of Mexico though. It’s the colonial language brought over by Spaniards.

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

@@kirat5855that’s very true, but we can’t change things around, the best we can do is to conserve our language. At least that’s the way I look at it.

[@kirat5855]

@@rodrigogarcia4591 I was disputing the statement in the comment "despite coming from a valley in a country where Spanish is the native language!" I'm 100% for conserving the indigenous languages.

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

You are right. I am very sorry for the misunderstanding. Zapotec is my first language, therefore, I often make mistakes on my reading, writing, and conversation with Spanish and specially in English.

[@rdklkje13]

@@rodrigogarcia4591Thank you for recording this! Any chance of subtitles, in Zapotec and/or Spanish? The transcription software seems to be quite puzzled….

[@EliasRPolo]

FALSO ESTE NO ES ZAPOTECO DE TEJALAPAM, FALSO FALSO.

[@Chilam.]

Que es entonces

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní.

[@jeongbun2386]

Where’d u guys go 😭

[@plixypl0x]

I love the sound of languages with guttural stops. And Oaxaca is a beautiful place. :)

[@EliasRPolo]

Falso, no es zapoteco de tejalapam

[@jonathanamendoza3033]

​@@EliasRPolo de dónde es y qué idioma es?

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

Zapoteco de San Lucas Quiaviní.

[@dan74695]

They're called glottal stops. You should listen to Danish if you love glottal stops lol

[@asgerhougardmikkelsen8770]

​@@dan74695 danish doesn't have glottal stops. It's called stød.

[@broccoli9308]

At 3:05 It's interesting how when he says the name of the months with Spanish roots, it sounds like the Catalan words. Ener, Febrer, Març, Abril, Agost, etc.

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

For some reason we don’t have months name in Zapotec. I tried to used all that words I could in Zapotec. We do not have days name in Zapotec either.

[@ZhangK71]

I get that not all cultures have a concept of seven days of 24 hours each, but don’t these languages usually create or borrow such terms after contact with the West?

[@NicholasBiniaz-Harris]

@@ZhangK71 The stems for Zapotec words for days of the week are Spanish. I heard "Lunes" pronounced Lun, Luns, Lunsh, and a couple other ways in the various Zapotec languages I heard.

[@MartinOkeke-x4m]

​@@NicholasBiniaz-HarrisThat should be "Monday" as "Lundi" is the equivalent in French

[@MartinOkeke-x4m]

Also it might have connotations to the MOON cus LUNAR means "of the moon" and MONday is derived from the Norse culture of MOON DAY

[@heykeema]

wow, i am just discovering this channel for the first time. this is an awesome thing you do!!!!

[@Lana-pf5ce]

I wonder where they went

[@oliveranderson7264]

I really hope this channel isn't dead

[@hugonegrete6325]

Y'all should do a video on Yoremnokki, I'd love to see that beautiful language from the region my family's from be heard by many people)

[@issacovid1270]

The zapotec im used to , each zapotec region has accents

[@peynirformaggio6915]

I recommend to make a video about Cypriot Turkish, because this dialect is so different (though mutually intelligible) from turkish, sadly it may disappear in a future because turkey wants to force turkish cypriots to speak standart turkish, even turkey is colonizing north cyprus with turks from turkey and sadly now turkish Cypriots are becoming a minority, wish you can make a video about the beautiful cypriot turkish language and show it to the world in this amazing chanel.

[@tom_p6430]

Maybe the author of the video could give this footage exact subtitles in Spanish or English.

[@ignacioignogrundinglestheg9089]

yes!! i wish they would provide subtitles to more videos it would add so much!

[@EliasRPolo]

Es falso, no es zapoteco de tejalapam.

[@rodrigogarcia4591]

Is about how life was in the 60s. How we lived without electricity, without roads like the ones we have today, and a little bit about the songs I have written, which can be found in my KZbin channel. Thank you for your appreciation of my language.

[@sneeds]

Not sure what he's saying

[@ourBooksbyCat]

i am learning southern sami dat is ok

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

THE SPIRITS BLESS THE ZAPOTEC

[@Xochiyolotl]

What have you got against them?

[@MrAllmightyCornholioz]

@@Xochiyolotl Nothing? Offended?