Proto-Zapotec language

the languages as follows: Proto-Zapotec Southern Zapotec Papabuco (unnamed) Solteco Northern Zapotec Central Zapotec Valley Zapotec Isthmus Zapotec Based

Huave language as a separate branch within Oto-Manguean, but this inclusion has proved untenable as most of the cognates were loan-words from Zapotec. Huave

Zapotecan languages are a group of related Oto-Manguean languages which descend from the common proto-Zapotecan language spoken by the Zapotec people during

and the Nahuan Pochutec language. Huave was the original language of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, but lost territory to Zapotec. Oaxaca is the most linguistically

descendants. Zapotec Hieroglyphs, c. 500 BC – 800 AD, possibly logosyllabic. Ñuiñe Hieroglyphs, c. 400 AD – 800 AD. Similar to Zapotec and possibly an