Zapotec Languages - Documentation and Scholarship

Documentation and Scholarship

Franciscan and/or Dominican friars published a vocabulary and grammar of Zapotec in the 16th century . In the past century there have been ongoing efforts to produce Zapotec alphabets and to write in Zapotec. The Isthmus Zapotec alphabet in use today was founded in the 1950s, drawing from works going back as far as the 1920s. Until recently the Zapotec language were only sparsely studied and documented but in recent years Zapotec language has begun to receive serious attention by descriptive linguists (see bibliography).