Silacayoapan Mixtec | |
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Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca, Guerrero |
Native speakers | (150,000 in Mexico cited 1990–2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously:mks – Silacayoapanmxb – Tezoatlánvmc – Juxtlahuacamim – Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache)mxv – Metlatónoc (San Rafael)xta – Alcozaucajmx – Coicoyán (Western Juxtlahuaca)mxa – Portezuelo (Northwest Oaxaca) |
Glottolog | cent2266 Central Baja Mixtecsout3179 Southern Baja Mixtecguer1245 Guerrero Mixtectezo1238 Tezoatlan Mixtec |
ELP | Central Baja Mixtec |
Guerrero Mixtec[2] | |
Tezoatlan Mixtec[3] | |
Southern Baja Mixtec (shared)[4] |
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.
Egland & Bartholomew[5] 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%.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k kʷ | ʔ |
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑɡ | ||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | x | ||
voiced | β | ð | ʒ | |||
Approximant | l | j | ||||
Rhotic | ɾ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i ĩ | ʉ | u ũ |
Close-Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Open | a ã |