Silacayoapan is one of the more extensive
Mixtec languages. It is spoken by 150,000 people in
Puebla
Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
and across the border in
Guerrero, as well as by emigrants to the
United States.
Dialects
Egland & Bartholomew found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70%
mutual intelligibility with each other:
* Metlatónoc (Metlatónoc, San Rafael, Tlacoachistlahuaca, Cochoapa), Alcozauca (Alcozauca, Xochapa, Petlacalancingo)
* Portezuelo (Santos Reyes Yucuná, Guadalupe Portezuelo, San Simón Zahuatlán)
* Coicoyán (San Martín Peras Cuatzoquitengo, Río Frijol, Santa Cruz Yucucani, San José Yoxocaño, Malvabisco, Rancho Limón, Río Aguacate, Boca de Mamey)
*(varieties within ≈75% of Silacayoapan proper)
** Juxtlahuaca (San Sebastián Tecomaxtlahuaca, San Miguel Tlacotepec, Santos Reyes Tepejillo, Santa María Tindú, San Martín Duraznos)
** Alacatlatzala (Alacatlatzala, Cahuatache, Tenaztalcingo, Jilotepec, Zacatipa, Tototepec, Cuba Libre, San Isidro Labrador, Quiahuitlatlatzala, Xonacatlán, Tepecocatlán, Cuautipa, Ocuapa, Potoichan)
** Silacayoapan
*** Silacayoapan proper (Santo Domingo Tonalá, San Jorge Nuchita)
*** Tezoatlán (
Yucuquimi de Ocampo,
San Andrés Yutatío
San Andrés Yutatío is a small town in the municipality of Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, in the Huajuapan District of the Mixteca Baja region, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Demographics
San Andrés Yutatío has a population of 695 inhabitants a ...
, Yucuñuti de Benito Juárez, San Juan Diquiyú, San Marcos de Garzón, San Martín del Río, Santa Catarina Yotandú, San Isidro de Zaragoza, San Valentín de Gomez)
*** (other towns) Ixpantepec Nieves, Santiago Tamazola, Atenango, San Miguel Ahuehuetitlán
''Ethnologue'' counts (Santa María)
Yucunicoco Mixtec with Juxtlahuaca Mixtec. However, Egland & Bartholomew found it to have only 50% intelligible with Juxtlahuaca. Comprehension of Mixtepec is 85%, but in the other direction only 45%.
Phonology
Consonants
Vowels
[North and Shields, 1977. pp. 21-39]
References
Sources
* Shields, Jäna K. 1988
A syntactic sketch of Silacayoapan Mixtec In C. Henry Bradley & Barbara E. Hollenbach (eds.) ''Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages'', vol. 1. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics;
rlington:University of Texas at Arlington, pp. 305–449.
Tezoatlán Mixtec(SIL-Mexico)
External links
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{{Oto-Manguean languages
Mixtec language