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Mixtec, Coatzospan

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: miz

Population	5,000 (1994 SIL). 500 monolinguals.
Region	Oaxaca.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 163
Alternate names	Mixteco de San Juan Coatzospan, Teotitlán Mixtec
Dialects	25% intelligibility with Chazumba [xtb]. Cuyamecalco [xtu] similar, but inherent intelligibility inadequate.
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Language use	Some also use a Mazatec variety.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 60%. Dictionary. NT: 2003.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; tonal. Pastoralists; swidden, peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRADLEY, C. Henry; HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., editors. 1990. Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 2.  

PIKE, Eunice V.; SMALL, Priscilla C., authors. 1974. "Downstepping terrace tone in Coatzospan Mixtec."

SMALL, Priscilla C., author. 1974. Coatzospan Mixtec pronouns.  

SMALL, Priscilla C., author. 1979. "Prominence and dominance in Coatzospan Mixtec narrative."  

SMALL, Priscilla C., author. 1990. "A syntactic sketch of Coatzospan Mixtec."  

SMALL, Priscilla C., editor. 1979. "Frog and deer story; Orange tree story; Rabbit and coyote story: Coatzan Mixtec."