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Mixtec, Northwest Oaxaca

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3mxa

Population  2,500 (1990 census). 2,195 monolinguals.
Region  Northwest Oaxaca, Santos Reyes Yucuná, Guadalupe Portezuelo, and San Simón Zahuatlán towns.
Language map  Southern Central Mexico, reference number 188
Alternate names   Mixteco de Yucuná, Mixteco del Noroeste de Oaxaca
Classification  Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO; short words, clitics; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists.