• Mitla Zapotec, or Didxsaj, is an Oto-Manguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Guelavia Zapotec is reported to be 75% intelligible, but the reverse is apparently...
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    the language in Zapotec itself varies according to the geographical variant. In Juchitán (Isthmus) it is Diidxazá [didʒaˈza], in Mitla it is Didxsaj [didʒˈsaʰ]...
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    Mitla is the second-most important archeological site in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, and the most important of the Zapotec culture. The site is located...
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    of the other urban centers of the Zapotecs in the sub-valley area of Mitla. As a polytheistic religion, the Zapotecs attributed several elements of the...
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    The Zapotec civilization (Be'ena'a (Zapotec) "The People"; c. 700 BC–1521 AD) is an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the Valley...
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    entire collection of Zapotec and Mixtec cultural items has disappeared. The name “San Pablo” is in honor of Saint Paul, and “Mitla” is a hispanization...
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  • the use of a thematic vowel /u/, as in the following examples from Mitla Zapotec: Setting aside possible abstract analyses of these facts (which posit...
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    Carol and Morris Stubblefield, compilers. 1994. Rabbit and Coyote. Mitla Zapotec texts, pp. 61–102. (Folklore texts in Mexican Indian languages no. 3...
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    high-ranking Zapotec woman in pre-Hispanic Mitla. When she was born, a seer predicted that she would die for her country. When she grew up, the Zapotec were involved...
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  • – Aloápam Zapotec zar – Rincón Zapotec zas – Santo Domingo Albarradas Zapotec zat – Tabaa Zapotec zav – Yatzachi Zapotec zaw – Mitla Zapotec zax – Xadani...
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    Oaxaca (section Zapotecs)
    which was capital of the Zapotec empire. Also important as an archaeological site is the ancient Zapotec center of Mitla at the eastern end of the Central...
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  • academic journal about the Hebrew Bible. ZAW or zaw can also refer to: Mitla Zapotec, a language of Oaxaca state, Mexico, by ISO 639 code Zaw, a Burmese...
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    Mitla, San José Mogote and Yagul. Today, the capital of the state, the city of Oaxaca, is located in the central portion of the valley. The Zapotec dominated...
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    Cosijoeza (category Zapotec people)
    belli and in 1497 the war began. Zapotec, the city of Huaxyacac was the first to be attacked and destroyed, then it was Mitla, the military campaign spread...
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    Monte Albán (category Zapotec sites)
    native Zapotec name to a colonial-era reference to a Spanish soldier by the name Montalbán or to the Alban Hills of Italy. The ancient Zapotec name of...
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    capital of Tilantongo, as well as the sites of Achiutla, Cuilapan, Huajuapan, Mitla, Tlaxiaco, Tututepec, Juxtlahuaca, and Yucuñudahui. The Mixtecs also made...
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    states of Tamaulipas and northern Veracruz. The Mixtec and Zapotec cultures, centered at Mitla and Zaachila respectively, inhabited Oaxaca. The Postclassic...
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    Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning...
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    Yagul (category Zapotec sites)
    themselves in various small centers such as Lambityeco, Mitla and Yagul. Yagul comes from the Zapotec language, it is formed from ya (tree) and gul (old)...
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    Literatures Journal. 4 (2): 99–124. Citing: Parsons, Elsie Clews (1936). Mitla, town of the souls, and other Zapoteco-speaking pueblos of Oaxaca, Mexico...
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    San José Mogote (category Zapotec sites)
    new Zapotec political center and capital, Monte Albán. San Pablo Huitzo, Santa Marta Etla, Hacienda Blanca, Tomaltepec, Zaachila, Abasolo, Mitla, Tilcajete...
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    Niches at the Veracruz site of El Tajín. The stone mosaic fretwork at Mitla, a Zapotec site in Oaxaca, display many variations on the xicalcoliuhqui motif...
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    from the early first millennium BCE to about the 14th century. Monte Albán Mitla Historians divide the Lenca chronology into two, the Preclassic Proto-Lencas...
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    geometric designs and indigenous symbols including Zapotec designs with origins in nearby Monte Albán and Mitla. The entire process of making one alebrije, including...
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    Rica Curicaberis minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico Curicaberis mitla Rheims, 2015 – Mexico Curicaberis pedregal Rheims, 2015 – Mexico Curicaberis...
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    center of the city of Oaxaca on Federal Highway 190, which leads east to Mitla and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is part of the Tlacolula District in...
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  • El Palmillo (category Zapotec sites)
    Palmillo is just to the south of the pre-Columbian site of Mitla and to the east of the major Zapotec regional center, Monte Albán. A major excavation at the...
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  • 000 years BC has been found in the Guilá Naquitz cave near the town of Mitla. More finds of nomadic peoples date back to about 5000 BC, with some evidence...
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    Guiengola (category Zapotec sites)
    Zapotec sites include Lambityeco, Dainzu, Mitla, Yagul, San José Mogote, El Palmillo and Zaachila. The Zapotec language belongs to a language family called...
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    Lambityeco (category Zapotec sites)
    Whitecotton, Joseph W. (1977). The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests and Peasants. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Dainzú Mitla Monte Albán San José Mogote Valley...
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