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Ayautla Mazatec

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Native to
  
Mexico

ISO 639-3
  
vmy

Region
  
Oaxaca

Glottolog
  
ayau1235

Native speakers
  
3,700 (2005 census) 80% monolingual (1994)

Language family
  
Oto-Manguean Popolocan Mazatecan Highland Western Ayautla Mazatec

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.

See Mazatecan languages for a detailed description of these languages.

References

Ayautla Mazatec Wikipedia