Mixe, Isthmus

MIR

developing

Alternate Names: Eastern Mixe, Guichicovi Mixe, Mixe del Istmo

Genealogy:

Mixe-Zoquean
Mixean
Oaxaca Mixean
Lowland Mixe

Demographics: 20,000 (1990 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%. Literacy rate in L2: 30%. NT: 1988.

Typology: SOV; long words, affixes, clitics; prepositions; genitives and demonstratives before noun heads; relative clauses after noun head; question words initial; nontonal.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Mexico

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.