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Mixtec, San Miguel el Grande

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3mig

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.  Available online

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."

Longacre, Robert E. and René Millon. 1961. "Proto-Mixtecan and Proto-Amuzgo-Mixtecan vocabularies: a preliminary cultural analysis."

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. 1974. "Coordination and its implications for roots and stems of sentence and clause."

Pike, Evelyn G. 1991. "Contrastive paragraph types in a procedural discourse of the Mixtec of San Miguel el Grande, Oax., Mexico."

Pike, Evelyn G. 1995. "Variant orders of nuclear and marginal clause constituents in Mixtec of San Miguel el Grande, Mexico."

Pike, Evelyn G. 1996. "Quotation formulas of San Miguel el Grande Mixtec: Their structure, distribution and function."

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. 1944. Cambios en la forma y el significado debidos a la posicion de los morfemas en la frase: analisis de un texto mixteco.

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."

Pike, Kenneth L. 1967. "Suprasegmentals in reference to phonemes of item, of process, and of relation."

Pike, Kenneth L. 1980. A Mixtec lime oven.

Pike, Kenneth L. 1986. "Mixtec social ‘credit rating’: The particular versus the universal in one emic world view."

Stark, Donald S. 1947. "Mixteco: Complex phonemes."