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Mixe, Coatlán

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3mco

Population  5,000 (1993 SIL). All Mixe languages: 90,000 (1993 SIL).
Region  East central Oaxaca, including Coatlán, Camotlán, San José, Santa Isabel, Ixcuintepec.
Language map  Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 105
Alternate names   Southeastern Mixe
Dialects  Coatlán Mixe, Camotlán Mixe.
Classification  Mixe-Zoque, Mixe, Eastern Mixe
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Videos. Dictionary. NT: 1976.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Long words, affixes, clitics; nontonal. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BARTHOLOMEW, Doris; HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, authors. 1993. "Gramática del mixe de Coatlán."

HOOGSHAGEN NOORDSY, Searle; HOOGSHAGEN, Hilda Halloran de, compilers. 1993. Diccionario mixe de Coatlán, Oaxaca.

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1959. "Three contrastive vowel lengths in Mixe."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1960. "Elección, instalación y aseguramiento de los funcionarios en Coatlán."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1960. "Notes on the sacred narcotic mushroom from Coatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1964. "The Mixe supernatural and Christianity."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1966. "A sketch of the earth’s supernatural functions in Coatlán Mixe."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1971. "La creación del sol y la luna según los mixes de Coatlán, Oaxaca."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1974. Estructura de la cláusula en mixe de Coatlán.  Available online

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1984. "Coatlán Mixe."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle, author. 1987. "Acculturation of indigenous societies: a Mixe case study."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1961. "Coatlán Mixe kinship."

HOOGSHAGEN, Searle; WEITLANER, Roberto J., authors. 1960. "Grados de edad en Oaxaca."

MILLER, Walter, researcher. 2011. Mixe Stories and Beliefs.

VAN HAITSMA, Julia D.; VAN HAITSMA, Willard, authors. 1976. A hierarchical sketch of Mixe as spoken in San José El Paraíso.  Available online

Vernacular Publications

Primera cartilla s. mixe de Oaxaca. 1953.