Mixtec, Chazumba

XTB

shifting

Alternate Names: Mixteco de Chazumba, Mixteco de la frontera Puebla-Oaxaca, Northern Oaxaca Mixtec

Dialects: None known. 53% inherent intelligibility of Cacaloxtepec ,, 24% of Chigmecatitlán ,, 19% of Cuyamecalco , (Coatzospan).

Genealogy:

Otomanguean
Eastern Otomanguean
Amuzgo-Mixtecan
Mixtecan
Mixtec

Demographics: 3,790 (2000 INALI). 30 monolinguals.

Language Use: 75% scattered over a large area; most villages fewer than 15% can speak Mixtec. A large percentage of each village shifted to Spanish [spa]. Mainly older adults.

Writing System: Unwritten

Nation of Origin: Mexico