Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

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Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
South Highland Mixe
Ayuujk
Native to Mexico
Region Northeastern Oaxaca
Native speakers
5,000  (1991)[1]
Mixe–Zoque
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mxp

Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, called South Highland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico.

South Highland Mixe consists of a core dialect, spoken in the towns of Tlahuitoltepec, San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla, and Tamazulapan, with divergent dialects in Tepuxtepec, Tepantlali, and Mixistlán. It is a polysynthetic language with head marking and an inverse system (Romero-Méndez 2008).

References

  1. Tlahuitoltepec Mixe reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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