Mixe language
Ayüük Ja'ay | ||
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Spoken in |
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speaker | over 130,000 people | |
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Official language in | National language in Mexico![]() |
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Mixe (Ayüük Ja'ay) is an indigenous language in Mexico , spoken by the Mixe ethnic group . It is spoken by over 130,000 people in the eastern highlands of the Mexican state of Oaxaca .
properties
The mix language is a polysynthetic ergative language .
classification
Mixe is most closely related to the Sayula Popoluca (Sayultek) and Oluta Popoluca (Olutecian) languages spoken in Veracruz . Together with these and the Zoque , it belongs to the Mixe-Zoque language family .
distribution
Due to the strong geographical isolation within the mountainous language area, there are strongly differing regional variants. SIL International divides the mix into ten individual languages. There are three main dialect groups: the highland mix (in the northern highlands around Totontepec and in the southern highlands around Tlahuitoltepec , Ayutla and Tamazulapan ), the medium highland mix (in the area around Juquila and Zacatepec ) and the lowland mix (in the around Guichicovi ).
documentation
The Mixe language is poorly documented and many variants are not recorded at all. The dialects around Totontepec, Ayutla and Coatlán are best documented. For these, dictionaries and short grammars were created by SIL International .
literature
- Julia Irene Dieterman: Participant reference in Isthmus Mixe narrative discourse. 1995, (Thesis in linguistics presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Arlington).
- Searle Hoogshagen Noordsy, Hilda Halloran de Hoogshagen: Diccionario mixe de Coatlán, Oaxaca (= series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves". 32). Instituto Lingüistico de Verano, México DF 1993, ISBN 968-31-0280-8 .
- Alvin Schoenhals, Louise C. Schoenhals: Vocabulario mixe de Totontepec (= series de vocabularios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves". 14, ZDB -ID 1074598-1 ). Instituto Lingüistico de Verano, México DF 1965.
- Søren Wichmann: The Relationship among the Mixe-Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City UT 1995, ISBN 0-87480-487-6 .