Ixcatlán Mazatec is a
Mazatecan language spoken in the
Mexican state
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of
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 munici ...
, notably in the towns of Chichicazapa, Nuevo Ixcatlán, and
San Pedro Ixcatlán. Egland (1978) found 76% intelligibility with
Huautla, the
prestige variety
Prestige in sociolinguistics is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally co ...
of Mazatec.
See also
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Mazatecan languages
The Mazatecan languages are a group of closely related Mesoamerican languages, indigenous languages spoken by some 200,000 people in the area known as the Sierra Mazateca, which is in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, ...
References
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Mazatecan languages