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Tone Patterns and Verb Forms in a Dialect of Zapotek

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Jaime de Angulo
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A somewhat detailed study of this particular dialect is interesting for two reasons: firstly, because this is the dialect furthest removed from the primarily monosyllabic type characteristic of Zapotek and other related languages; secondly, because in its use of pitch tone it presents a very typical problem in the evolution of tone from a functional, variable, morphological factor to a fixed, independent, semasiological entity.

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Language , Volume 2 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1926, pp. 238 - 250

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1 The material upon which this study is based was obtained in Oaxaca in the course of a linguistic survey of that region for the Department of Anthropology of Mexico under the direction of Manuel Gamio.

2 For classification of the dialects cf. Language, 2.49; 132 (map).

3 Notice how in the above free translation I have adhered as strictly as possible to the Zapotek text, but always preserving the syntactic relations of English. Hence the obscurities of meaning which are not present in the original. It was done on purpose to bring out more clearly the essential build of the Zapotekan system of grammatical relations. This will appear clearly in the following text and literal translation.