San Baltazar Loxicha Zapotec (Northwestern Pochutla Zapotec) is a

Zapotec language The Zapotec languages are a group of around 50 closely related indigenous Mesoamerican languages that constitute a main branch of the Oto-Manguean language family and are spoken by the Zapotec people from the southwestern-central highlands of ...

spoken in southern

Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ...

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. It is spoken in the towns of San Baltazar Loxicha and

Santa Catarina Loxicha Santa Catarina Loxicha is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of km². It is part of the Pochutla District in the east of the Costa Region The Costa Region or Costa Chica lies on the Pacifi ...

. It is not the same language as the other dialects spoken in towns named Loxicha, but it is in the same branch of Zapotec.

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Zapotec languages {{Oto-Manguean-lang-stub Oto-Manguean languages Languages of Mexico