Mazatlán Mazatec

Mazatlán Mazatec
(Mazatlán Villa de Flores)
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca
Native speakers
12,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vmz
Glottolog maza1296[2]

Mazatlán Mazatec is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, in the town of Mazatlán Villa de Flores.[3] Egland (1978) found 80% intelligibility with Tecóatl and 78% with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec.[1]

See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.

References

  1. 1 2 Mazatlán Mazatec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mazatlan Mazatec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. See Egland (1978). Ethnologue 17 lists the towns of Tecóatl Mazatec.
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