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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Mexico > Mixtec, Yosondúa

Mixtec, Yosondúa

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3mpm

Population  5,000 (1990 census). 240 monolinguals.
Region  Oaxaca.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 228
Alternate names   Mixteco de Santiago Yosondúa, Southern Tlaxiaco Mixtec
Dialects  70% intelligibility with San Miguel el Grande [mig] and Chalcatongo (most similar). San Mateo Sindihui has 19% intelligibility with Yosondúa.
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Language development  Dictionary. NT: 1988.
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  Peasant agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bradley, C. Henry and Barbara E. Hollenbach, editors. 1992. Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages 4.  Available online

Farris, Edwin R. 1992. "A syntactic sketch of Yosondúa Mixtec."  Available online

Farris, Kathryn, compiler. 2002. Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca.  Available online