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Also known as Be'ena'a, Ben 'Zaa, Binii Gula'sa', Didxazá, Didxažon̳, Dii'zh, Sapoteko, Sapotekos

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Zapotec people
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The Zapotec (Valley Zapotec: Bën za) are an Indigenous people of Mexico. Their population is primarily concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities also exist in neighboring states. The present-day population is estimated at 400,000 to 650,000, many of whom are monolingual in one of the Native Zapotec languages and dialects.

In pre-Columbian times, the Zapotec civilization was one of the highly developed cultures of Mesoamerica that had a Zapotec writing system.

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