Silacayoapan Mixtec

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Silacayoapan Mixtec
Native to Mexico
Region Oaxaca, Guerrero
Native speakers
(150,000 in Mexico cited 1990–2011) [1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
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
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.

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Dialects

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%.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
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

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i   ĩ ʉ u   ũ
Close-Mid e   ẽ o   õ
Open a   ã

[6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Silacayoapan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Tezoatlán at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Juxtlahuaca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Metlatónoc (San Rafael) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Alcozauca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
  2. ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Guerrero Mixtec.
  3. ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Tezoatlan Mixtec.
  4. ↑ Endangered Languages Project data for Southern Baja Mixtec (shared).
  5. ↑ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México
  6. ↑ North and Shields, 1977. pp. 21-39
  7. ↑ Shields 1988.

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