Estetla Mixtec

Estetla Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Estetla Mixtec
Eastern Mixtec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
13,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
mil – Peñoles
mxs – Huitepec
mqh – Tlazoyaltepec
vmx – Tamazola
Glottologpeno1244  Penoles
tlaz1235  Tlazoyaltepec
huit1252  Huitepec
tama1339  Tamazola
ELPEastern Alta Mixtec (shared)

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[2] found four dialects which have about 75% mutual intelligibility with each other:

  • (Santa María) Peñoles
  • (San Antonio) Huitepec
  • (Santiago ) Tlazoyaltepec
  • (San Juan) Tamazola

References
  1. Peñoles at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Huitepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tlazoyaltepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tamazola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México

Sources
  • No author. 1977. Mixteco de Santa María Peñoles, Oaxaca. Mexico City: Centro de Investigación para la Integración Social. Series: Archivo de Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico.
  • Daly, John P. 1973. A generative syntax of Peñoles Mixtec. Norman, Oklahoma: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma.
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