Mixtec, San Miguel el Grande
A language of Mexico
| Population | 14,500 (1990 census). 4,453 in Chalcatongo. |
| Region | West central Oaxaca. |
| Language map |
Southern Central Mexico, reference number 219 |
| Dialects | 86% intelligibility with Yosondúa [mpm] (most similar). |
| Classification | Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec |
| Language development | NT: 1951. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | VSO; short words, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
Dyk, Anne and Betty Stoudt. 1965. Vocabulario mixteco de San Miguel el Grande.
Dyk, Anne. 1951. Vocabulario de la lengua mixteca de San Miguel el Grande, Oaxaca.
Dyk, Anne. 1959. Mixteco texts.
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Hollenbach, Barbara E. 2003. "The historical source of an irregular Mixtec tone-sandhi pattern."
Hunter, Georgia and Eunice V. Pike. 1969. "The phonology and tone sandhi of Molinos Mixtec."
Mak, Cornelia. 1950. "A unique tone perturbation in Mixteco."
Mak, Cornelia. 1953. "A comparison of two tonemic systems."
Mak, Cornelia. 1959. "Mixtec medical beliefs and practices."
Mak, Cornelia. 1961. "Estudio comparativo de dos dialectos mixtecos."
Merrifield, William R. 1968. "Number names in four languages of Mexico."
Merrifield, William R. and Betty Stoudt. 1967. "Molinos Mixtec clause structure."
Pike, Evelyn G. 2001. "The amplification clause root in San Miguel El Grande Mixtec."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1937. "Una leyenda mixteca."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1944. "Analysis of a Mixteco text."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1945. "Mock Spanish of a Mixteco Indian."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1945. "Tone puns in Mixteco."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1946. "Another Mixteco tone pun."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1946. "The flea: melody types and perturbations in a Mixtec song."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1947. "A text involving inadequate Spanish of Mixteco Indians."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1947. "Grammatical prerequisites to phonemic analysis."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1948-49. "Cuento mixteco de un conejo, un coyote y la luna."
Pike, Kenneth L. 1949. "A problem in morphology-syntax division."

