Ñumí Mixtec

Ñumí Mixtec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
 19,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
xtn – Northern Tlaxiaco
mie – Ocotepec
mvg – Yucuañe
Glottolog ocot1243  Ocotepec[2]
yucu1250  Yucuane[3]
nort2985  Northern Tlaxiaco[4]

Ñumí Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[5] found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual intelligibility with each other, spoken in the following towns:

Yucuañe is no longer being passed on to children.

References

  1. ↑ Northern Tlaxiaco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ocotepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Yucuañe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ocotepec Mixtec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yucuane Mixtec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northern Tlaxiaco Mixtec". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México
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