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Cuicatec, Tepeuxila

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3cux

Population  8,500 (1990 census). 850 monolinguals.
Region  Northwest Oaxaca. 16 towns.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 176
Dialects  Santa María Pápalo. 88% intelligibility with Teutila Cuicatec [cut].
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Cuicatec
Language development  NT: 1974.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  VSO; short words; affixes, clitics; tonal. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anderson, E. Richard and Hilario Concepción R. 1983. Diccionario cuicateco: español-cuicateco, cuicateco-español.

Bradley, David P. 1991. "A preliminary syntactic sketch of Concepción Pápalo Cuicatec."  Available online

Davis, Marjorie and Margaret Walker. 1955. "Cuicateco: Morphemics and morphophonemics."

Davis, Marjorie. 1952. "Translating nouns into the Cuicateco language."

Davis, Marjorie. 1954. "Translating from FL Cuicateco to TL English."

Davis, Marjorie. 1963. "Cuicatec tales about witchcraft."

Needham, Doris and Marjorie Davis. 1946. "Cuicateco phonology."

Pickett, Velma B. 1983. Review of: Diccionario cuicateco: español-cuicateco, cuicateco-español, by E. Richard Anderson and Hilario Concepción R..

Pickett, Velma B. 1989. Review of: Diccionario cuicateco, by E. Richard Anderson and Hilario Concepción R., compilers.

Pickett, Velma B. 1989. Review of: Diccionario zapoteco: Zapoteco de Juarez, by Neil Nellis and Jane G. Nellis.