Alternate Names: Coastal Mixtec, Lowland Jicaltepec Mixtec, Mixteco de Pinotepa Nacional, Western Jamiltepec Mixtec
Genealogy:
Demographics: 20,000 (1990 census). 2,200 monolinguals.
Language Use: Used with other Mixtecs. Home, friends, work. All ages. Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: NT: 1980.
Typology: VSO; short words, affixes, clitics; 3 prepositions; no genitives; no articles; adjectives after noun heads, numerals before noun heads; relatives without noun heads; question words initial; maximum number of prefixes that can occur together on a word-3, no suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; affixes do not indicate case, person, number, or gender of subject or object; no ergativity; no passives or other voice phenomena; causatives; no comparatives; syllable patterns: V, CV; tonal.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico