Abstract:This work consists of two poems written in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, a Valley Zapotec language spoken in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The poems are presented with English and Spanish translations, notes about the poet and translator, explanation of the translation process, and culture information.
“…6 Munro et al (2021) 7 Drawn from Lopez and Lillehaugen (2018), Lopez and Lillehaugen (2017) Tokens is the number of lexical units according to the transducer, and coverage is the percentage of tokens that received at least one analysis from the transducer.…”
This area is in all probability unmatched, anywhere in the world, in its linguistic multiplicity and diversity. A couple of thousand languages and dialects, at present divided into 17 large families and 38 small ones, with several hundred unclassified single languages, are on record. In one small portion of the area, in Mexico just north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, one finds a diversity of linguistic type hard to match on an entire continent in the Old World.
“…6 Munro et al (2021) 7 Drawn from Lopez and Lillehaugen (2018), Lopez and Lillehaugen (2017) Tokens is the number of lexical units according to the transducer, and coverage is the percentage of tokens that received at least one analysis from the transducer.…”
This area is in all probability unmatched, anywhere in the world, in its linguistic multiplicity and diversity. A couple of thousand languages and dialects, at present divided into 17 large families and 38 small ones, with several hundred unclassified single languages, are on record. In one small portion of the area, in Mexico just north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, one finds a diversity of linguistic type hard to match on an entire continent in the Old World.
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