Silacayoapan Mixtec

Silacayoapan Mixtec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca, Guerrero
Native speakers
unknown (150,000 in Mexico cited 1990–2011)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
mks  Silacayoapan
mxb  Tezoatlán
vmc  Juxtlahuaca
mim  Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache)
mxv  Metlatónoc (San Rafael)
xta  Alcozauca
jmx  Coicoyán (Western Juxtlahuaca)
mxa  Portezuelo (Northwest Oaxaca)
Glottolog cent2266  (Central Baja Mixtec)[2]
sout3179  (Southern Baja Mixtec)[3]
guer1245  (Guerrero Mixtec)[4]
tezo1238  (Tezoatlan Mixtec)[5]

Silacayoapan is one of the more extensive Mixtec languages. It is spoken by 150,000 people in Puebla and across the border in Guerrero, as well as by emigrants to the United States.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[6] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

Ethnologue counts (Santa María) Yucunicoco Mixtec with Juxtlahuaca Mixtec. However, Egland & Bartholomew found it to have only 50% intelligible with Juxtlahuaca. Comprehension of Mixtepec is 85%, but in the other direction only 45%.

References

  1. Silacayoapan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tezoatlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Juxtlahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Metlatónoc (San Rafael) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Alcozauca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Central Baja Mixtec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Southern Baja Mixtec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guerrero Mixtec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  5. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tezoatlan Mixtec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  6. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México

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