The population is composed almost wholly of indigenous Zapotec peoples.

There are seven distinct Zapotec languages and over a hundred dialects.

Hunahpu knew them all, of course, had studied their village and key people in the other Zapotec villages for years.

These are the earliest Zapotec glyphs known to exist.

Zapotec rulers seized control over the provinces outside the valley of Oaxaca.

Zapotec communities can be found in 67 municipalities.

San Bartolo is a Zapotec community, which has been making pottery for about 2,000 years.

Its Zapotec name is Xaguixe, which means "at the foot of the mountain".

This rug is thicker and softer than a Zapotec knockoff.

There is no mutual intelligibility with other Zapotec languages.

At that time, Cuilapan was identifiable as a Zapotec city state.

Archaeological sites in the area consist of several tombs, walls, and similar Zapotec structures.

This was the Mexican explanation of a Zapotec attribute.

The Angeles family specializes in using natural dyes to paint traditional Zapotec designs.

Some properties of the Texmelucan Zapotec verbs go, come, and arrive.

However, the Mixtec capitals did not reach the magnitude of their Zapotec neighbors.

The latter is a Zapotec village of about a dozen families, who make very simple, yet light, earth colored cookware and utensils.

Zapotec languages all display contrastive phonation type differences in vowels.

Tono: A linguistic ethnography of tone and voice in a Zapotec region.

In Ortiz's case, attorneys initially thought he would need a Zapotec interpreter, court records indicate.

Some are called "commercial" as they are popular in markets rather than traditional, although traditional Zapotec designs can still be readily found.

Quialana is a Zapotec word that means "black rocks" or "blackened rocks."

In fact, it was not uncommon for a Zapotec man to leave a marriage after his children were grown and move in with another male lover.

Teotitlán del Valle is a traditional rural town that maintains its Zapotec culture.

Later, in the post-classic period, this and other Zapotec cities would be overrun by the Mixtecs.