Atatláhuca–San Miguel 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.
Dialects
Egland & Bartholomew
[Egland & Bartholomew (1983) ''La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México''] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70%
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:
*San Esteban Atatláhuca
ib+ Santa Lucía Monteverde
dv*Molinos
*Itundujía
ce*Yosondúa
pm+ San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo
ig*Yolotepec
tt*Teita
tj
''Ethnologue'' notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua
tiand Tijaltepec
tl are about as similar.
References
* Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. ''Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca.'' Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.
*
Macaulay, Monica. 1996. ''A grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec'', University of California Publications in Linguistics. .
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Mixtec language