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Mixtec, Peñoles

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: mil

Population	13,400 in Mexico (2000). 2,000 monolinguals (1990 census).
Region	West central Oaxaca. Santa María Peñoles municipalities, Monteflor, San Mateo Tepantepec, Estetla, and Cholula agencias; Santiago Tlazoyaltepec municipalities; Huitepec municipalities, Huazolotipac agencia. Also in United States.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 214
Alternate names	Eastern Mixtec, Mixteco de San Mateo Tepantepec
Dialects	Santa María Peñoles (Peñoles), Santiago Tlazoyaltepec (Tlazoyaltepec), San Mateo Tepantepec (Tepantepec). 14% intelligibility with Chalcatongo. Nuxaá has 30% intelligibility with Peñoles [mil].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. NT: 1979–2002.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists; pastoralists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

DALY, John P., author. 1966. Generative syntax of Mixteco.

DALY, John P., author. 1969. "The poor man and the buzzard."

DALY, John P., author. 1973. "Los cambios tonales del Mixteco de Peñoles."

DALY, John P., author. 1973. A generative syntax of Peñoles Mixtec.  

DALY, John P., author. 1977. "A problem in tone analysis."  

DALY, John P., author. 1992. "Phonetic interpretation of tone features in Peñoles Mixtec."

DALY, John P., author. 1993. The role of tone sandhi in tone analysis.

DALY, John P.; DALY, Margaret H., compilers. 1977. Mixteco: Santa María Peñoles, Oaxaca.

DALY, Margaret H., author. 1973. "El telar precolombino de los mixtecos de Peñoles."

DALY, Margaret H., author. 1984. A socio-linguistic analysis of a Mixtec text comparing oral and written versions.  

MERRIFIELD, William R., editor. 1977. Studies in Otomanguean phonology.  

Vernacular Publications

Campaña nacional contra el bocio. 1961.  

Cuèndú tée ndùcu nuu ndɨcutu. 1973.  

Cuèndu uú landú ndɨhɨ cuèndú dámí. 1973.  

Na da cuah-o tnuhum dau. 1961.  

Tutú ndèé tnúhu dàú. 1972.