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Mixtec, Diuxi-Tilantongo

A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3: xtd

Population	4,220 (2000), decreasing. In rapid decline due to migration to USA.
Region	Oaxaca, 20 towns and villages in the Diuxi and Tilantongo area, Oaxaca City, Puebla City, Mexico City.
Language map	Southern Central Mexico, reference number 196
Alternate names	Central Nochistlán Mixtec, Mixteco de Diuxi-Tilantongo
Dialects	37% intelligibility with Peñoles [mil] (Eastern); more similar to Nuxaá [mxy].
Classification	Oto-Manguean, Mixtecan, Mixtec-Cuicatec, Mixtec
Language use	All ages.
Language development	NT: 2001.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; stems are CVCV or CVV; tonal. Peasant agriculturalists: wheat; pastoralists: goats, sheep.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Daly, John P. 1978. "Notes on Diuxi Mixtec tone."

Kuiper, Albertha and Joy Oram. 1991. "A syntactic sketch of Diuxi-Tilantongo Mixtec."  

Kuiper, Albertha and Velma B. Pickett. 1974. "Personal pronouns in Diuxi Mixtec."  

Kuiper, Albertha and William R. Merrifield. 1973. "Verbos de movimiento en el mixteco de Diuxi."

Kuiper, Albertha and William R. Merrifield. 1975. "Diuxi Mixtec verbs of motion and arrival."

Kuiper, Albertha and William R. Merrifield. 1975. "Verbos de movimiento en el Mixteco de Diuxi."

Oram, Joy. 1970. A sketch of Mixtec grammar.

Pike, Eunice V. and Joy Oram. 1976. "Stress and tone in the phonology of Diuxi Mixtec."

Vernacular Publications

¡Na ka'u-ro tnu'u ñudau! (¡Vamos a leer en mixteco!). 2006.