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