North American ethnic group Zapotec http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149664 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Zapotec_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec_peoples https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147401 F1221.Z3 An Indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities also exist in neighboring states. The present-day population is estimated at approximately 800,000 to 1,000,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of the native Zapotec languages and dialects. In pre-Columbian times, the Zapotec civilization was one of the highly developed cultures of Mesoamerica, which, among other things, included a system of writing. F1219.8.Z37 Zapotec Indian