Mixtec, Peñoles

MIL

developing

Alternate Names: Eastern Mixtec, Mixteco de Santa María Peñoles

Dialects: None known. 14% intelligibility of Chalcatongo. Nuxaá has 30% intelligibility of Peñoles ,.

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Amuzgo-Mixtecan
Mixtecan
Mixtec

Demographics: 5,500 in Mexico (2000 INALI). 1,000 monolinguals.

Language Use: All ages. Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 5%. Literacy rate in L2: 40%. Grammar. NT: 1979–2002.

Typology: VSO; short words, clitics; tonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico