online talking dictionary

version 5.2022

There are currently 573 entries, 526 audio files, and 189 images.

All content copyright © the recorded Zapotec communities. (2019)
Dictionary produced by Brook Lillehaugen, Moisés García Guzmán, María Mercedes Méndez Morales, Sol Hernandez, Aurora Sánchez Gómez, and Floriana Hernández Martínez, with Savita M. Deo, Graham Mauro, Saul Ontiveros, Alex Mannix and May Plumb, with support from K. David Harrison and Jeremy Fahringer.
Supported in part with funding from a NSF REU Site grant (PI Harrison, Building Digital Tools to Support Endangered Languages and Preserve Environmental Knowledge in Mexico, Micronesia, and Navajo Nation, Award #1461056). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


Most of the black and white line drawings in these entries are taken from the Arte para la Alfabetización en México (Art for Literacy in Mexico) (Instituto Lingüistico de Verano, A.C., 2004) and are used according to the license agreement therein. All artwork remains the intellectual property of the artist.

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how to cite: Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle, Aurora Sánchez Gómez, and Floriana Hernández Martínez, with Savita M. Deo, Graham Mauro, Saul Ontiveros, & K. David Harrison. 2019. San Bartolomé Quialana Zapotec Talking Dictionary, version 1.0. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/quialana

Interface and database design under the direction of Jeremy Fahringer and Swarthmore College ITS.

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