Coast Mixtec

Facts

  • Language: Coast Mixtec
  • Alternate names: Amoltepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Amoltepec, Western Sola de Vega Mixtec, Chayuco Mixtec, Eastern Jamiltepec-Chayuco Mixtec, Mixteco de Chayucu, Pinotepa Nacional Mixtec, Coastal Mixtec, Jicaltepec Mixtec, Lowland Jicaltepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Pinotepa Nacional, Western Jamiltepec Mixtec, San Juan Colorado Mixtec, Mixteco de Oaxaca de la costa noroeste, Mixteco de San Juan Colorado, Tututepec Mixtec, Mixteco de San Pedro Tututepec, Mixteco de Villa de Tututepec, Jamiltepec Mixtec, Eastern Jamiltepec-San Cristobal Mixtec, Mixteco de Jamiltepec, Mixteco de Oaxaca de costa central baja, Mixteco de Santa María Huazolotitlán, Santa María Zacatepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Santa María Zacatepec, Southern Putla Mixtec, Tacuate, Tu’un Va’a, Zacatepec Mixtec, Ixtayutla Mixtec, Mixteco de Santiago Ixtayutla, Northeastern Jamiltepec Mixtec
  • Language code: mbz, mih, mio, mjc, mtu, mxt, mza, vmj
  • Language family: Otomanguean; Mixtecan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 63,180
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script:

More information:

    Note on Mixtec languages: The system of classification adopted here follows the most detailed linguistic survey of Mixtec languages yet undertaken (Josserand 1983). While other sources, such as Ethnologue (18th edition), may include as many as 52 varieties of "Mixtec", the Catalogue of Endangered Languages identifies 12 distinct Mixtec languages.