Native to Mexico | Region Oaxaca, Guerrero | |
Native speakers (150,000 in Mexico cited 1990–2011) Language family Oto-Manguean
Mixtecan
Mixtec
Silacayoapan–Cacaloxtepec
Silacayoapan Mixtec ISO 639-3 Variously:
mks – Silacayoapan
mxb – Tezoatlán
vmc – Juxtlahuaca
mim – Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache)
mxv – Metlatónoc (San Rafael)
xta – Alcozauca
jmx – Coicoyán (Western Juxtlahuaca)
mxa – Portezuelo (Northwest Oaxaca) Glottolog cent2266 (Central Baja Mixtec)
sout3179 (Southern Baja Mixtec)
guer1245 (Guerrero Mixtec)
tezo1238 (Tezoatlan Mixtec) | ||
Silacayoapan is one of the more extensive Mixtec languages. It is spoken by 150,000 people in Puebla and across the border in Guerrero, as well as by emigrants to the United States.
Dialects
Egland & Bartholomew found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:
Ethnologue counts (Santa María) Yucunicoco Mixtec with Juxtlahuaca Mixtec. However, Egland & Bartholomew found it to have only 50% intelligible with Juxtlahuaca. Comprehension of Mixtepec is 85%, but in the other direction only 45%.
References
Silacayoapan Mixtec Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA