Zapotec

Meaning

1. Of or relating to the Zapotec people.
2. A member of an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca and spread into some neighbouring states.
3. Of or relating to their language.
4. Any of a group of Oto-Manguean languages spoken by the Zapotec people.

Etymology / origin

From Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapotēcah, plural of tzapotēcatl (“inhabitant of the place of sapote”).

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