alternate_names: "Apasco Mixtec; Apoala Mixtec; Mixteco de Santiago Apoala; Northern Nochixtlán Mixtec",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Otomanguean; Mixtecan",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "Probably correlates to Josserand's group, "San Pedro Jocotipac, NE Alta 24; [Ndua], Apoa; San Miguel Chicahua, NE Alta 27; Santiago Ixtaltepec, NE Alta 20; [Santa María Apasco, NE Alta 21]" (1983) and to INALI's variety, "mixteco del noreste," which is spoken in Santiago Apoala.
Ethnologue list 52 Mixtec languages. INALI gives 81 "variantes" of Mixteco. SIL and INALI distinguish varieties of Mixtec, some of which are mutually intelligible dialects of the same language. The exact number of distinct languages is unclear. ",