Trilingual Diidxaza (iso:zai) - Spanish - English Dictionary

FAIN: FN-298418-24

Gabriela Perez Baez
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR 97403-5219)

Research and writing of a dictionary for Diidxaza, a language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, and translating the dictionary into Spanish and English. 

Diidxaza (aka: Isthmus Zapotec iso:zai) is an Indigenous Mesoamerican language of the Central Core Zapotec branch of the Otomanguean stock. The project is to complete a publishable manuscript of a 10,000-entry dictionary of Diidxaza with Spanish and English equivalents. This dictionary is the culmination of 20 years of field-based data collection and analysis. The performance period will focus on data synthesis and on writing Spanish and English equivalents for publication in Dictionaria, an online, open access and peer-reviewed dictionary journal. The unparalleled extensive scope of this dictionary and the online and open access will make data available for the advancement of the study of Mesoamerican languages and benefit instruction and revitalization of Diidxaza.