Alternate Names: Mixteco de Santiago Ixtayutla, Northeastern Jamiltepec Mixtec
Dialects: None known. 79% intelligibility of Amoltepec ,, 59% of Chayuco ,, 49% of Jamiltepec ,, 40% of San Juan Colorado ,, 30% of Zacatepec ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 6,380 (2000 INALI). 3,800 monolinguals (2005 census).
Language Use: Home, friends, work. Also use Amoltepec Mixtec [mbz] or other coastal Mixtecs. Quite proficient in Jamiltepec Mixtec [mxt], a neighboring language. Prefer Mixtec varities over Spanish [spa]. Prefer Mixtec varities over Spanish [spa], except in the municipal capital, Ixtayutla, where some prefer Spanish.
Typology: VSO; prepositions; head-genitive; article-noun, number-noun, noun-adj; question word initial; tonal with lots of tone sandhi; minimal phonological word contains 2 moras; clitic pronouns attach to words from various grammatical categories.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Mexico
Other Comments: School through 6th grade in Ixtayutla. Some settlements have schools. Christian, traditional religion.