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Mixe Language

Mixe is a Mixe-Zoquean language of Mexico. Actually there are between three and eight different Mixe languages, depending how you count them--the languages are different enough that their native speakers cannot necessarily understand each other, similar to speakers of related languages like English and Dutch. Two Popoluca languages of Veracruz are also closely related to Mixe and are sometimes referred to as Mixe de Veracruz. In total nearly 90,000 people speak Mixe languages in Mexico today, and another 4,000 speak the two Popoluca Mixean languages.

˜Mixe Language Resources –

Coatlan Mixe * Jaltepec Mixe * Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
     Our lists of Mixe vocabulary words, with comparison to words in other Mixe-Zoque languages.
Mixe de Juquila
     Christian prayer translated into a dialect of Oaxacan Mixe.
Mixe Placenames
     Chart of indigenous Mixe, Zoque and Popoluca place names in Mexico.
Coatlan Mixe * Isthmus Mixe * Juquila Mixe * Mazatlan Mixe * North-Central Mixe
Quetzaltepec Mixe * Totontepec Mixe * Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
     Demographic information about the Mixe languages from the Ethnologue of Languages.



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