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Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a
Mixe language The Mixe languages are languages of the Mixean branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico. According to a 1995 classification, there are seven of them (including one that is extinct). The four that are spoken in ...
spoken in
Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...
. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán,
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Grammar

Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order. It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head. Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as
agglutinating An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Words may contain different morphemes to determine their meanings, but all of these morphemes (including stems and affixes) tend to remai ...
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Phonology

Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization.


See also

* Norman Nordell'
Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary
(1990) published by
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References

Mixe–Zoque languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub