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Mazatec, Huautla

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: mau

Population	82,200 (2005). 27,000 monolinguals.
Region	North Oaxaca, Huautla and vicinity.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 160
Alternate names	Highland Mazatec, Mazateco de Huautla de Jimenez, Mazateco de la Sierra
Dialects	San Mateo, San Miguel. 90% intelligibility with San Jerónimo Tecóatl [maa] (most similar, less similar in outlying areas), 60% with Mazatlán, 35% with Jalapa [maj]. Lexical similarity: 94% with San Miguel, 93% with San Mateo, 80% with Soyaltepec, 78% with San Pedro Ixcatlán, 74% with Jalapa de Díaz.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Popolocan, Mazatecan
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. Mazatec is needed and used locally, but use Spanish for prestige. Also use Spanish, increasingly in Huautla City.
Language development	Dictionary. NT: 1961.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Whistle speech, which distinguishes tones of the spoken language, described by G. Cowan (1948, 1952). Short words; tonal. Agriculturalists: maize, coffee. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Cowan, Florence H. 1937. "Report on the Mazateco dialect—morphology and grammar."

Cowan, Florence H. 1946. "Notas etnográficas sobre los mazatecos de Oaxaca, Méx."

Cowan, Florence H. 1947. "Linguistic and ethnological aspects of Mazateco kinship."

Cowan, Florence H. 1950. "Syntax problems in the Mazateco translation."

Cowan, Florence H. 1952. "A Mazateco president speaks."

Cowan, Florence H. 1963. "La mujer del agua arrastradora: Un texto mazateco."

Cowan, Florence H. 1963. "Study of first person plural forms in the Mazateco New Testament."

Cowan, George M. 1946. "Mazateco house building."

Cowan, George M. 1948. "Mazateco whistle speech."

Cowan, George M. 1952. "El idioma silbado entre los mazatecos de Oaxaca y los tepehuas de Hidalgo, México."

Cowan, George M. 1953. "El motivo ‘mariposa’ en la cultura mazateca contemporánea."

Cowan, George M. 1954. "La importancia social y política de la ‘faena’ mazateca."

Cowan, George M. 1965. Some aspects of the lexical structure of a Mazatec historical text.  

Cowan, George M. 1974. "The Mazatec language."

Cowan, George M. 1981. "Whistled communication."

Cowan, George M. and Florence H. Cowan. 1947. "Mazateco: Locational and directional morphemes."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1951-52. "Solving the Mazateco reading problem."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1955. "Lexico-statistical skewing from dialect borrowing."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1958. "Native reactions to tones and words in Mazatec."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. "Discourse analysis of a Mazatec text."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. "Mazatec kernel constructions and transformations."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1959. "Toneme representation in Mazatec orthography."

Pike, Eunice V. 1937. "Mazateco fonetics."

Pike, Eunice V. 1937. "Una nueva industria mazateca."

Pike, Eunice V. 1948. "Head-washing and other elements in the Mazateco marriage ceremony."

Pike, Eunice V. 1949. "Texts on Mazatec food witchcraft."

Pike, Eunice V. 1952. Vocabulario mazateco.

Pike, Eunice V. 1960. "Mazatec sexual impurity and Bible reading."

Pike, Eunice V. 1962. "Mazatec focus."

Pike, Eunice V. 1967. "Huautla de Jiménez Mazatec."

Pike, Eunice V. 1980. "The concept of limited good and the spread of the gospel."

Pike, Eunice V. and Florence H. Cowan. 1959. "Mushroom ritual versus Christianity."

Pike, Kenneth L. and Charles C. Fries. 1949. "Coexistent phonemic systems."

Pike, Kenneth L. and Eunice V. Pike. 1947. "Immediate constituents of Mazateco syllables."

Wasson, R. Gordon, George M. Cowan, Florence H. Cowan, and Willard Rhodes. 1974. María Sabina and her Mazatec mushroom velada.