Ñumí Mixtec

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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:

  • (San Juan) Ñumí, (Santiago) Nunduchi, (San Sebastián) Nicananduta
  • (San Antonio) Monteverde
  • (Santo Tomás) Ocotepec
  • (San Bartolomé) Yucuañe

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)
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  5. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México