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Mixtec, Ocotepec

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: mie

Population	6,500 (1982 SIL).
Region	West central Oaxaca.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 222
Alternate names	Mixteco de Santo Tomás Ocotepec, Ocotepec Mixtec
Dialects	Santa Catarina Yosonotu. 80% intelligibility with Ñumí [xtn] (Northwestern Tlaxiaco).
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Language development	NT: 1977.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1988. "A syntactic sketch of Ocotepec Mixtec."  

Avendaño J., Lucio and Ruth Mary Alexander. 1970. "Stories of a Mixteco town."

Eberhardt, Roy. 1999. "Questions and inversion in Ocotepec Mixtec."  

Mak, Cornelia. 1958. "The tonal system of a third Mixtec dialect."

Mak, Cornelia. 1959. "Mixtec medical beliefs and practices."

Mak, Cornelia. 1977. "Maguey tapping in the highland Mixteco."

Mak, Cornelia. 1977. "Picturesque Mixtec talk."