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Peñasco Mixtec
(Magdalena) Peñasco Mixtec, also known as Tlacotepec Mixtec, is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the towns of Santa MarÃa Magdalena Peñasco, San Cristobal Amoltepec, San Mateo Peñasco, and San AgustÃn Tlacotepec. It has closer unidirectional intelligibility with other varieties, but may be closest to Ñumà Mixtec Ñumà Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec. Dialects Egland & BartholomewEgland & Bartholomew (1983) ''La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México'' found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual .... References Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec(SIL-Mexico) {{DEFAULTSORT:Penasco Mixtec Mixtec language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
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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 municipalities, of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of (customs and traditions) with recognized local forms of self-governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca City, Oaxaca de Juárez. Oaxaca is in southern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, and Chiapas to the east. To the south, Oaxaca has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The state is best known for #Indigenous peoples, its indigenous peoples and cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotec peoples, Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, but 16 are officially recognized. These cultures have survived better than most others in Mexico due to the state's rugged and isolating terrain. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oto-Manguean
The Oto-Manguean or Otomanguean () languages are a large family comprising several subfamilies of indigenous languages of the Americas. All of the Oto-Manguean languages that are now spoken are indigenous to Mexico, but the Manguean languages, Manguean branch of the family, which is now extinct language, extinct, was spoken as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Oto-Manguean is widely viewed as a proven language family. The highest number of speakers of Oto-Manguean languages today are found in the state of Oaxaca where the two largest branches, the Zapotecan languages, Zapotecan and Mixtecan languages, Mixtecan languages, are spoken by almost 1.5 million people combined. In central Mexico, particularly in the states of Mexico (state), Mexico, Hidalgo (Mexico), Hidalgo and Querétaro, the languages of the Oto-Pamean branch are spoken: the Otomi language, Otomi and the closely related Mazahua language, Mazahua have over 500,000 speakers combined. In the linguistic world of Mesoa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixtecan Languages
The Mixtecan languages constitute a branch of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean language family of Mexico. They include the Trique language, Trique (or Triqui) languages, spoken by about 24,500 people; Cuicatec language, Cuicatec, spoken by about 15,000 people; and the large expanse of Mixtec language, Mixtec languages, spoken by about 511,000 people. The relationship between Trique, Cuicatec, and Mixtec, is an open question. Unpublished research by Terrence Kaufman in the 1980s supported grouping Cuicatec and Mixtec together. Proto-Mixtecan The ''urheimat'' of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean family may be the valley of Tehuacán in Puebla state. This site was one of the places of the domestication of maize. The thousand-year presence of Oto-Manguean-speaking groups in this region makes it probable that they were active in this domestication process, which favored the inhabitants of the Altiplano's transition to a sedentary lifestyle and thus influenced the deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mixtec Language
The Mixtec () languages belong to the Mixtecan languages, Mixtecan group of the Oto-Manguean languages, Oto-Manguean language family. Mixtec is spoken in Mexico and is closely related to Trique language, Trique and Cuicatec language, Cuicatec. The varieties of Mixtec are spoken by over half a million people.2000 census; the numbers are based on the number of the total population for each group and the percentages of speakers given on the website of the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos IndÃgenas, http://www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=660, accessed 28 July 2008). Identifying how many Mixtec languages there are in this complex dialect continuum poses challenges at the level of linguistic theory. Depending on the criteria for distinguishing dialects from languages, there may be as few as a dozen or as many as fifty-three Mixtec languages. Language name The name "Mixteco" is a Nahuatl exonym, from ''mixtecatl'', from ''mixtli'' ("cloud") + ''-catl'' ("i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa MarÃa Magdalena Peñasco
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San Mateo Peñasco
San Mateo Peñasco is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 155.65 km2. It is part of the Tlaxiaco District in the south of the Mixteca Region The Mixteca Region is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, part of the broader La Mixteca area which covers parts of the states of Puebla, Guerrero and Oaxaca. The region includes the districts of Juxtlahuaca, Silacayoapam, Huajuapan, Coix .... As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 1,732. History The history of this town is unknown the only history data we know about this town is the construction of the temple of San Mateo Peñasco in the XVII. Geography The Predominant weather in this town is moderate with rains during summer also the winds depend on the time during the season. Ocotes, encinos are found in the flora of San Mateo Peñasco. Most of the vegetation in this region is tropical. Economy The principal economic activities in this region are: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San AgustÃn Tlacotepec
San AgustÃn Tlacotepec is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 79.1 km2. It is part of the Tlaxiaco District in the south of the Mixteca Region The Mixteca Region is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, part of the broader La Mixteca area which covers parts of the states of Puebla, Guerrero and Oaxaca. The region includes the districts of Juxtlahuaca, Silacayoapam, Huajuapan, Coix .... As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 876. References Municipalities of Oaxaca {{Oaxaca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ñumà Mixtec
Ñumà Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec. Dialects Egland & BartholomewEgland & Bartholomew (1983) ''La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México'' found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual intelligibility In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between different but related language varieties in which speakers of the different varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Mutual intelli ... with each other, spoken in the following towns: *(San Juan) ÑumÃ, (Santiago) Nunduchi, (San Sebastián) Nicananduta *(San Antonio) Monteverde *(Santo Tomás) Ocotepec *(San Bartolomé) Yucuañe Yucuañe is no longer being passed on to children. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Numi Mixtec Mixtec language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
