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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Mixe, Coatlán

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

Hoogshagen, Searle and Hilda Hoogshagen, compilers. 1993. Diccionario mixe de Coatlán.

Hoogshagen, Searle and William R. Merrifield. 1961. "Coatlán Mixe kinship."

Hoogshagen, Searle. 1959. "Three contrastive vowel lengths in Mixe."

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

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

Hoogshagen, Searle. 1964. "The Mixe supernatural and Christianity."

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

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

Hoogshagen, Searle. 1974. "Estructura de la cláusula en mixe de Coatlán."

Hoogshagen, Searle. 1984. "Coatlán Mixe."

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

Van Haitsma, Julia D. and Willard Van Haitsma. 1976. A hierarchical sketch of Mixe as spoken in San José El Paraíso.  Available online

Weitlaner, Roberto J. and Searle Hoogshagen. 1960. "Grados de edad en Oaxaca."