Zapotec
Sign in to saveAlso known as Be'ena'a, Ben 'Zaa, Binii Gula'sa', Didxazá, Didxažon̳, Dii'zh, Sapoteko, Sapotekos
ethnic group
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Languages spoken
- Zapotec
- Country
- Mexico
- Population
- 650000
- Image
- Zapotec women and children Mexican Indian Mongoloid.png
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- Category:Zapotec people
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zapotec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.