Estetla 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 & BartholomewEgland & Bartholomew (1983) ''La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México'' found four dialects which have about 75%

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: *(Santa María) Peñoles *(San Antonio) Huitepec *(Santiago) Tlazoyaltepec *(San Juan) Tamazola

References

Sources

* No author. 1977
''Mixteco de Santa María Peñoles, Oaxaca''
Mexico City: Centro de Investigación para la Integración Social. Series: Archivo de Lenguas Indigenas de Mexico. * Daly, John P. 1973. ''A generative syntax of Peñoles Mixtec''. Norman, Oklahoma: Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma. {{Oto-Manguean languages Mixtec language