Alternate Names: Coastal Guerrero Mixtec, Mixteco de Ayutla
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 30% with Metlatónoc , and Yoloxóchitl ,; 5% with San Juan Colorado ,, Silacayoapan ,, and Santa Maria Zacatepec ,. Considered a Mixtec isolate with a large number of words unlike other variants.
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Demographics: 11,500 (2000 INALI). 3,000 monolinguals.
Language Use: Home, work. All ages. Also use Spanish [spa].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Videos. Bible portions: 1970–2004.
Typology: VSO; prepositions.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico