This journal documents the endeavor of a Southern California university student to learn Isthmus Zapotec through poetry and other authentic resources for the purpose of academic research, personal enrichment, and to learn about the indigenous people of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Response to previous post: No formal 'you'
No formal ‘you’ after all: Since Villalteco Zapotec has a formal ‘you’ (the usted in Spanish), I suspected that Isthmus Zapotec did, as well. It does not. I just read in Gramática Popular del Zapoteco del Istmo (Pickett & Black, 2001), “No hay diferencia entre usted y tú” (p. 28, http://www-01.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/istmo/G023b-GramaticaZapIstmo-zai.pdf). The singular 'you' in IZ is lii.
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