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Mixe, Isthmus

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: mir

Population	20,000 (1990 SIL).
Region	Northeast Oaxaca, throughout San Juan Guichicovi Municipality, near Veracruz border, Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 3 towns.
Language map	Eastern Central Mexico, reference number 107
Alternate names	Eastern Mixe, Guichicovi Mixe, Mixe del Istmo
Classification	Mixe-Zoque, Mixe, Eastern Mixe
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 30%. NT: 1988.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV; long words, affixes, clitics; prepositions; genitives and demonstratives before noun heads; relative clauses after noun head; question words initial; nontonal. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bickford, J. Albert. 1985. "Fortis/lenis consonants in Guichicovi Mixe: a preliminary acoustic study."

Dieterman, Julia Irene. 1998. "Participant reference in Isthmus Mixe narrative discourse."

Dieterman, Julia Irene. 2008. Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account.  

Nordell, Norman. 1962. "On the status of Popoluca in Zoque-Mixe."

Nordell, Norman. 1984. "Spanish loan words via Aztec."