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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.

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Mixe Language Resources

Coatlan Mixe

Jaltepec Mixe

Tlahuitoltepec Mixe
Our lists of Mixe vocabulary words, with comparison to words in other Mixe-Zoque languages.

Meso-American Native Languages
Map showing the areas in Mexico where Mixe languages are spoken.

Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe
Mixe linguistics paper available online in PDF format.

Mixe de Juquila
Christian prayer translated into a dialect of Oaxacan Mixe.

Language Museum: Coatlan Mixe

Language Museum: Juquila Mixe

Language Museum: Mixe de Totontepec

Mexican Bible Verses: Mixe de Coatlan
Mixe translation of several Biblical passages.

Mixe Placenames
Chart of indigenous Mixe, Zoque and Popoluca place names in Mexico.

Yu Ye'eydyujk Tyunk
An untranslated Mixe text.

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.

Mije Language Tree:
Theories about Mixe's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Coatlán Mixe Language Structures

Tlahuitoltepec Mixe Language Structures

Totontepec Mixe Language Structures:
Mixe linguistic profiles and academic bibliographies.

UDHR: Mixe:
Translation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Mixe.

Mixe Culture and History Links

Tequio:
The Mixe tradition of tequio or communal work.

Additional Resources, Links, and References

Southern Highland Chontal:

Lowland Mixe:

Midland Mixe:

Totontepec Mixe:
Bibliography of Mixe language resources from the Endangered Languages Project.
Los Mixes

Lengua Mixe:
Articles on the Mixe people and their language in Spanish.

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