Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec

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Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca, Guerrero
Native speakers
(28,000 cited 1995–2010)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
mib – Atatláhuca
mdv – Santa Lucía Monteverde
mce – Itundujía
mpm – Yosondúa
mig – San Miguel el Grande
xtj – San Juan Teita
xtl – Tijaltepec
xti – Sinicahua
xtt – Tacahua (Yolotepec)
Glottologwest2824  partial match
ELPWestern Alta Mixtec (partial match)

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Dialects[edit]

Egland & Bartholomew[2] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

  • San Esteban Atatláhuca [mib] + Santa Lucía Monteverde [mdv]
  • Molinos
  • Itundujía [mce]
  • Yosondúa [mpm] + San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo [mig]
  • Yolotepec [xtt]
  • Teita [xtj]

Ethnologue notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua [xti] and Tijaltepec [xtl], are about as similar.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Atatláhuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Santa Lucía Monteverde at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Itundujía at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Yosondúa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    San Miguel el Grande at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    San Juan Teita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
  2. ^ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México
  • Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.
  • Macaulay, Monica. 1996. A grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec, University of California Publications in Linguistics. ISBN 0-520-09807-2.