alternate_names: "Amoltepec Mixtec; Mixteco de Amoltepec; Western Sola de Vega Mixtec; Chayuco Mixtec; Eastern Jamiltepec-Chayuco Mixtec; Mixteco de Chayucu; Pinotepa Nacional Mixtec; Coastal Mixtec; Jicaltepec Mixtec; Lowland Jicaltepec Mixtec; Mixteco de Pinotepa Nacional; Western Jamiltepec Mixtec; San Juan Colorado Mixtec; Mixteco de Oaxaca de la costa noroeste; Mixteco de San Juan Colorado; Tututepec Mixtec; Mixteco de San Pedro Tututepec; Mixteco de Villa de Tututepec; Jamiltepec Mixtec; Eastern Jamiltepec-San Cristobal Mixtec; Mixteco de Jamiltepec; Mixteco de Oaxaca de costa central baja; Mixteco de Santa María Huazolotitlán; Santa María Zacatepec Mixtec; Mixteco de Santa María Zacatepec; Southern Putla Mixtec; Tacuate; Tu’un Va’a, Zacatepec Mixtec; Ixtayutla Mixtec; Mixteco de Santiago Ixtayutla; Northeastern Jamiltepec Mixtec",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Otomanguean; Mixtecan",
dialect_varieties: "Mixteco de Ixtayutla; Mixteco de Oaxaca de Costa Central Baja; Mixteco de Oaxaca de la Costa Central; Mixteco de Oaxaca de la Costa Noroeste; Mixteco de Oaxaca de la Costa Oeste Central; Mixteco de Santa María Huazolotitlán; Mixteco de Santiago Amoltepec; Mixteco de Sierra Sur Oeste; Mixteco de Villa de Tututepec; Mixteco del Oeste de la Costa",
public_comment: "Note on Mixtec languages: The system of classification adopted here follows the most detailed linguistic survey of Mixtec languages yet undertaken (Josserand 1983). While other sources, such as Ethnologue (18th edition), may include as many as 52 varieties of "Mixtec", the Catalogue of Endangered Languages identifies 12 distinct Mixtec languages.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:30919,
code_id:10528,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: "",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98925,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30933,
code_id:10528,
speaker_number: "10000-99999",
speaker_number_text: "63,180",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1990, 2000, 2005",
public_comment: ""Amoltepec Mixtec" [mbz] is cited as having 5,630 speakers (2000 INALI), 500 of whom are monolinguals (2005 census), out of an ethnic population of 12,000; "Chayuco Mixtec" [mih] is cited as having 10,000 speakers (1990 SIL), 950 of whom are monolinguals; "Pinotepa Nacional Mixtec" [mio] is cited as having 20,000 speakers (1990 census), 2,200 of whom are monolinguals; "San Juan Colorado Mixtec" [mjc] is cited has having 7,820 speakers (2000 INALI), 1,890 of whom are monolinguals; "Tututepec Mixtec" [mtu] is cited as having 1,020 speakers (2000 INALI), out of an ethnic population of 30,000 (1990 census); "Jamiltepec Mixtec" [mxt] is cited as having 9,760 speakers (2000 INALI), 1,300 of whom are monolinguals; "Santa María Zacatepec Mixtec" [mza] is cited as having 2,570 speakers (2005 census), 510 of whom are monolinguals; "Ixtayutla Mixtec" [vmj] is cited has having 6,380 speakers (2000 INALI), 3,800 of whom are monolinguals (2005 census).",