zapotec in English

noun
1
a member of an American Indian people living in and around Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
The Zapotecs of Mexico believed that the owl was associated with death, in that it gives notice when a man dies before flying off to retrieve his soul.
2
the Otomanguean language of the Zapotec, with some 300,000 speakers.
adjective
1
relating to the Zapotec or their language.
With no affordable alternative, Mixtec and Zapotec families lived for years in labor camps during the harvest season, returning to their native villages in the south when the work was done.

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1. These include the Nahuatl, Zapotec, Maya and Quinchés in Mexico and Central America, and the Aymara, Quechua and Arawaks in the southern part of the continent

2. He also appears in a legend of the White Mountain Apache, "Coyote fights a lump of pitch" (a variant of the Tar-Baby theme), and in similar legends of the Zapotec and Popoluca of Mexico.

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