Ñumí Mixtec

Ñumí Mixtec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
(19,000 cited 2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
xtn – Northern Tlaxiaco
mie – Ocotepec
mvg – Yucuañe
Glottologocot1243  Ocotepec
yucu1250  Yucuane
nort2985  Northern Tlaxiaco
ELPWestern Alta Mixtec (shared)

Ñumí Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[2] found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual intelligibility with each other, spoken in the following towns:

  • (San Juan) Ñumí, (Santiago) Nunduchi, (San Sebastián) Nicananduta
  • (San Antonio) Monteverde
  • (Santo Tomás) Ocotepec
  • (San Bartolomé) Yucuañe

Yucuañe is no longer being passed on to children.

References

  1. ^ Northern Tlaxiaco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Ocotepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Yucuañe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México