Ayautla Mazatec

Ayautla Mazatec
(San Bartolomé Ayautla)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Native speakers	3,700 (2005 census)^[1] 80% monolingual (1994)^[2]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Popolocan Mazatecan Highland Western Ayautla Mazatec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`vmy`
Glottolog	`ayau1235`^[3]

Ayautla Mazatec is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, in the town of San Bartolomé Ayautla. Egland (1978) found 80% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec.^[1]

See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.

References

1 2 Ayautla Mazatec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Ayautla Mazatec at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ayautla Mazatec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Mazatecan language(s)

Chiquihuitlán Central Huautla Ayautla Mazatlán Eloxochitlán Ixcatlán Jalapa Soyaltepec

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