"[5] Since the Ley General de Derechos Lingüísticos de los Pueblos Indígenas was passed in 2003 Isthmus Zapotec, along with all other indigenous languages of Mexico, was officially recognised by the Mexican State.

[6] The consonants for Isthmus Zapotec are as follows: This sound "bŕ" occurs very rarely for a bilabial trill [ʙ].

These occur in the three phonation types of stressed syllables: modal, checked, and laryngealized.

Checked vowels sound as if they end in glottal stop; for example words such as in English "what, light take, put."

Sometimes they are pronounced with a clear pronunciation of the vowel after a soft glottal stop.

[7] The verb structure for the Isthmus Zapotec is as follows: ASPECT (THEME) (CAUSATIVE) ROOT VOWEL.

[8] In Isthmus Zapotec, the four main causative prefixes are added /k-/, /si-/, /z-/, and /Ø-/ and at times, two of them can be found in a verb.

[7] Spanish words are also incorporated with Isthmus Zapotec morphemes such as r-aaka-retratar-beé meaning 'he gets his picture taken' where the Spanish word retratar has Isthmus Zapotec morphemes at the beginning and at the end.

Independent words can be separated and count as a complete sentence by its own and at least reply to a question that is specific to an object, location, etc.

Separating them will not form a complete sentence or response but they fill in more slots than independent words.