San Pablo Güilá Zapotec

San Pablo Güilá Zapotec is an Otomanguean language spoken in the namesake locality,  in the Central Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Despite being an endangered language, Güilá Zapotec is a fortunate Zapotec variety in some sense. Its speakers have led initiatives to strengthen its use within the community and to disseminate the language outside of it. Besides that, there are several Linguistic works dealing with this language. Those sources are listed below.

Materiales de consulta para hablantes (y lingüistas)

Arellanes Arellanes, F., Luis Gómez, F., & Saavedra, F. (2019). Dǎd gyà›l̈ kùn bɨ̌nyẍǎb “El copalero y el diablo.” Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas. https://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/index.php?page=el-copalero-y-el-diablo

Arellanes Arellanes, F., Ẍàybè, D., Pérez Santiago, B. (2022). La siembra. Un sueño en zapoteco de San Pablo Güilá. Tlalocan, 27(2), 49–85. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.27.2.010087X92

Arrieta Zamudio, A. L. (2019). Juan Flojo (Jwân̈y Plôg). Una narración en zapoteco de San Pablo Güilá. Tlalocan, 24, 13–125. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.2019.486

Broadwell, A. (2014). San Dionisio Ocotepec Zapotec – Spanish – English Dictionary. https://www.webonary.org/sandionisiozapotec/

Calderón Corona, M. I. (2020a). Las consonantes del zapoteco de Güilá. Material ilustrado.

Calderón Corona, M. I. (2020b). Insertar símbolos para escritura del dìzà o zapoteco de Güilá en Word. https://youtu.be/thHKoih6BOQ

López Cruz, A. (2013a). El cantarito: Una forma de curar el espanto en una comunidad zapoteca. Tlalocan, 12. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.1997.152

López Cruz, A. (2013b). Taab xten Màryêe Kòbdèe, cuento de María Ceniza. Tlalocan, 12. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.tlalocan.1997.153

Pérez Santiago, B., Gómez Pérez, C., Hernández, M., & Calderón Corona, M. I. (n.d.). Rǎ rgǎb Cómo se cuenta.

Pérez Santiago, B., Gómez Pérez, C., Hernández, M., & Calderón Corona, M. I. (2017). Rǎ bǐnd Los colores.

Xospa, I. (2021). Bebé Tamal (Gètgú› bdò›) (A. R. Gómez Morales, Trans.) (M. I. Calderón Corona, Corr.).

Language reclamation

Descriptive and Theoretical Linguistics

Here you can find some researchers whose linguistic work delve or has delve on San Pablo Güilá Zapotec. Only their main research subfield is specified.

Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio - UBC, Can Semantics and Pragmatics

Francisco Arellanes Arellanes - UNAM, Mex Phonology

Mariana Itzel Calderón Corona - UMass, US Syntax and Semantics

Áurea López Cruz - INAH, Mex Anthropological Linguistics

Luz Alba Santiago Morales - CIESAS, Mex Anthropological Linguistics

Thomas Smith-Stark ✝ - El Colegio de México, Mex Historical Linguistics

Carlos Suárez - UAM-I, Mex Syntax