Soyaltepec Mazatec
| Soyaltepec Mazatec | |
|---|---|
| (San Miguel Soyaltepec) | |
| Temascal Mazatec | |
| Native to | Oaxaca, Mexico |
| Region | San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz |
Native speakers | 28,000 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vmp |
| Glottolog |
soya1237[2] |
Soyaltepec Mazatec is a Mazatecan language spoken in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, notably in the towns of Santa María Jacatepec and San Miguel Soyaltepec, and on Soyaltepec Island.
Due to flooding from the construction of a dam, the Soyaltepec-speaking area has had an influx of speakers of other Mazatecan languages. Perhaps only 900 people, mostly monolingual, still speak the original variety of Soyaltepec.[1]
See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.
References
- 1 2 Soyaltepec Mazatec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Soyaltepec Mazatec". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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