Ñumí Mixtec

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

Ñumí Mixtec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
19,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
xtn – Northern Tlaxiaco
mie – Ocotepec
mvg – Yucuañe
Glottologocot1243  Ocotepec[2]
yucu1250  Yucuane[3]
nort2985  Northern Tlaxiaco[4]

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[5] 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.

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References
  1. Northern Tlaxiaco at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ocotepec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Yucuañe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ocotepec Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yucuane Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Northern Tlaxiaco Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México
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