Chiquihuitlán Mazatec

Chiquihuitlán is the most divergent variety of Mazatec, 47% intelligible with Huautla, the prestige variety, and even less intelligible with other Mazatecan languages.[1]

Chiquihuitlán Mazatec
Native toMexico
RegionSan Juan Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca
Native speakers
1,500 (2000)[1]
340 monolinguals (1990 census)[2][1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3maq
Glottologchiq1250
ELPChiquihuitlán Mazatec

Background

Chiquihuitlán Mazatec is an endangered language with only around 1,500 native speakers today. This language is native to the Northern part of Oaxaca, Mexico.[3] It is also part of the Oto-Manguean languages, a family of languages native to the Americas.[4]

Language revitalization

There has been an undergoing effort to gather as much information about the language as possible. Usually the group of people that speak this language is relatively small, and are forced to leave their native language and adopt the language with the greatest possibility of communication. An effort to help people keep their native language while learning Spanish are those undergone by teacher Gloria Ruiz de Bravo Abuja that created the institution Instituto de Investigación e Integración Social del Estado de Oaxaca en 1969. Another program is Archivo de lenguas indígenas del estate de Oaxaca which publishes promising findings in a series of linguistic schemes.[5]

References
  1. Chiquihuitlán Mazatec at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. García-Mendoza, A. J., Ordóñez Díaz, M. D., & Briones-Salas, M. (2004). Biodiversidad de Oaxaca (1st ed.). México: UNAM, Instituto de Biología
  3. Jamieson, Carole Ann (1982). "Conflated Subsystems Marking Person and Aspect in Chiquihuitlán Mazatec Verbs". International Journal of American Linguistics. 48 (2): 139–167. doi:10.1086/465725. ISSN 0020-7071. JSTOR 1264678. S2CID 143519194.
  4. "Stem formation in Chiquihuitlán Mazatec" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help)
  5. Ruiz de Bravo Ahuja, Gloria., Troike, Rudolph., Suarez, Jorge. (1978). Mazateco de Chiquihuitlan, Oaxaca. Archives of Indigenous Languages in the State of Oaxaca. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED378791.pdf

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America has audio samples of the language. Maria Sabina - Mujer Espiritu video

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