NOUN
- the language of the Zapotec
- a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the language or culture of the Zapotec people
How To Use Zapotec In A Sentence
- Moreover, researchers have shown that the city of Teotihuacan contained a clearly defined quarter that is specifically Zapotecan in nature. A day in Oaxaca = Two thousand years, Part One: The Americas' oldest urban centre.
- These Zapotecan ships would have changed all that. Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus
- Coming together in a pioneer Indian organization acronymed UZACHI, the Zapotecs and Chinantecos of Calpulapan, a tiny municipality high in the sierra, successfully fended off the loggers and saved their forests.
- With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region.
- In fact, of the 172 living Oto-Manguean tongues, sixty-four are Zapotecan. Indigenous Mexico: an overview
- It documented changes in subsistence patterns and the development of agriculture and village life which underpinned the rise of Olmec, Zapotec, and Maya civilizations.
- We drove with a prominent Teotitlan Zapotec elder up the dirt road to Benito Juarez to observe the valley from this height, climb to the local mountaintop mirador and, well, to drink some cold beer but when we arrived in Benito Juarez, the road was blocked by locals for reasons I still cannot fathom so we were told that it would be necessary for us to park at that spot and walk the rest of the way up the hill (for reasons I could not fathom as the road continued to our destination) which we did and the view from the mountaintop over the expansive Oaxaca Valley was supurb but the point is that here we were a mere 12 kilometers from the ancient village of Teotitlan and guests in the also ancient village of Benito Juarez and protocols were rigidly adhered to even though our Teotitlan host was among the most prominent elders in Teotitlan only 12 kilometers distant. Rigidly Observed Protocols
- There are zapotes, the sapodilla plums from which the Aztecs and others derived their word for the Zapotecs (a people properly known, in their own language, as the ‘Biniza’).
- Scholarshave been able to work out the Zapotec calendar and show it to be aprecursor of the Mayan one.
- Deciphering writing systems, whether the Etruscan alphabet or Zapotec glyphs, is comparable in complexity to cracking the genetic code.