Native to Mexico Ethnicity Cuicatec Writing system Latin | Region Oaxaca Native speakers 13,000 (2010 census) | |
Language family Oto-Manguean
Mixtecan
Cuicatec | ||
The Cuicatecs are an indigenous group of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, closely related to the Mixtecs. They inhabit two towns: Teutila and Tepeuxila in western Oaxaca. According to the 2012 census, they number around 12,785, of whom an estimated 65% are speakers of the language.
The name Cuicatec is a Nahuatl exonym, from [ˈkʷika] 'song' [ˈteka] 'inhabitant of place of'.
References
Cuicatec people Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA