Mixean languages

Mixean
Geographic
distribution:
Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas
Linguistic classification:

Mixe–Zoquean

  • Mixean
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: mixe1286[1]

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Locations (red) where Mixean languages are spoken

The Mixean languages are a primary branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family of southern Mexico. According to Wichmann (1995), there are three divergent Mixean languages, and a Oaxacan branch that constitutes the bulk of the family:

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mixe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

References