Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec
StatesMexico
RegionOaxaca, Guerrero
Date1995–2010
Refe18
Familycoloroto-manguean
Fam 1Oto-Manguean
Fam 2Mixtecan
Fam 3Mixtec
Lc 1mib
Ld 1Atatláhuca
Lc 2mdv
Ld 2Santa Lucía Monteverde
Lc 3mce
Ld 3Itundujía
Lc 4mpm
Ld 4Yosondúa
Lc 5mig
Ld 5San Miguel el Grande
Lc 6xtj
Ld 6San Juan Teita
Lc 7xtl
Ld 7Tijaltepec
Lc 8xti
Ld 8Sinicahua
Lc 9xtt
Ld 9Tacahua (Yolotepec)
Glottowest2824
Glottonamepartial match
GlottorefnameWestern Alta Mixtec

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew[1] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

  • San Esteban Atatláhuca [mib] + Santa Lucía Monteverde [mdv]
  • Molinos
  • Itundujía [mce]
  • Yosondúa [mpm] + San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo [mig]
  • Yolotepec [xtt]
  • Teita [xtj]

Ethnologue notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua [xti] and Tijaltepec [xtl], are about as similar.

References

  1. ^ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México
  • Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.
  • Macaulay, Monica. 1996. A grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec, University of California Publications in Linguistics. ISBN 0-520-09807-2.