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  1. Member of a North American Indian people of S
  2. Mexico, now numbering approximately 250,000,
  3. living mainly in Oaxaca. The Zapotec
  4. language, which belongs to the Oto-Mangean
  5. family, has nine dialects. The ancient
  6. Zapotec built the ceremonial centre of Monte
  7. Alban 1000-500 BC, and developed one of the
  8. classic Mesoamerican civilizations by AD 300,
  9. but declined under pressure from the Mixtecs
  10. from 900 until the Spanish Conquest.
  11.