Zapotec

adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca and spread into some neighbouring states.
  2. 2
    the language of the Zapotec wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900 wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the Zapotec people. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of or relating to their language. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a group of Oto-Manguean languages spoken by the Zapotec people.

Synonyms

All synonyms
zapotec languagezapotecanethnic groupethnolinguisticoaxacan peoplezapotec glyphs

Etymology

From Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapotēcah, plural of tzapotēcatl (“inhabitant of the place of sapote”).

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