Ñumí Mixtec is a diverse

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. T ...

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) Ñumí, (Santiago) Nunduchi, (San Sebastián) Nicananduta *(San Antonio) Monteverde *(Santo Tomás) Ocotepec *(San Bartolomé) Yucuañe Yucuañe is no longer being passed on to children.

References

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