Native to Mexico Native speakers 19,000 (2000) | Region Oaxaca | |
Language family Oto-Manguean
Mixtecan
Mixtec
Ñumí–Tlacotepec ?
Ñumí Mixtec ISO 639-3 Variously:
xtn – Northern Tlaxiaco
mie – Ocotepec
mvg – Yucuañe Glottolog ocot1243 (Ocotepec)
yucu1250 (Yucuane)
nort2985 (Northern Tlaxiaco) | ||
Ñumí Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec.
Dialects
Egland & Bartholomew found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual intelligibility with each other, spoken in the following towns:
Yucuañe is no longer being passed on to children.
References
Ñumí Mixtec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA