Ixcatlán Mazatec

Ixcatlán Mazatec
(San Pedro Ixcatlán)
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca
Native speakers	8,600 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Popolocan Mazatecan Lowland Valley Northern Ixcatlán Mazatec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mzi`
Glottolog	`ixca1246`^[2]

Ixcatlán Mazatec is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, notably in the towns of Chichicazapa, Nuevo Ixcatlán, and San Pedro Ixcatlán. Egland (1978) found 76% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec.^[1]

See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.

References

1 2 Ixcatlán Mazatec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ixcatlan 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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