The Cuicatecs are an

indigenous people of Mexico Indigenous peoples of Mexico ( es, gente indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans ( es, nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans ( es, pueblos originarios de México, lit=Original peoples of Mexico), are those ...

. The Cuicatecs traditionally speak the

Cuicatec language Cuicatec is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. It belongs to the Mixtecan branch together with the Mixtec languages and the Trique language. The Ethnologue lists two major dialects of Cuicatec: Tepeuxila Cuicatec and Teutila C ...

and are closely related to the

Mixtecs The Mixtecs (), or Mixtecos, are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero. The Mixtec Culture w ...

. Alongside the Trique and Mixtecan, the Cuicatecs form one branch of the Otomanguean language family. They inhabit two towns in the state of

Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is ...

Teutila San Pedro Teutila is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 148 km². It is part of Cuicatlán District in the south of the Cañada Region Cañada is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico c ...

and

Tepeuxila San Juan Tepeuxila is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 366.16 km². It is part of Cuicatlán District in the north of the Cañada Region Cañada is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mex ...

. According to the 2012 census, they number around 12,785, of whom an estimated 65% are speakers of the language. The name Cuicatec is a

Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahua peoples, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller ...

exonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...

, from 'song' 'inhabitant of place of'.Campbell 1997:402)

References

External links

Cuicatec people
on ILV México.

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