Chigmecatitlán Mixtec

Chigmecatitlán Mixtec (also known as Southeast Puebla Mixtec, or dehe dau ['rain language'] by its speakers) is a Mixtec language of Puebla, Mexico, spoken in the municipalities of Chigmecatitlán and Acatlán de Osorio.

Chigmecatitlán Mixtec
(Santa María Chigmecatitlán
Santa Catarina Tlaltempan)
Native toMexico
RegionPuebla
Native speakers
1,400 (2010)[1]
some monolingual
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3mii
Glottologchig1239[2]

Although classified as a 'vigorous' language by Ethnologue, UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger considers it definitely threatened.[3]

It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec.

References

  1. Chigmecatitlán Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chigmecatitlan Mixtec". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Atlas of languages in danger | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-08-10.


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