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Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ12953721 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

San Esteban Atatláhuca [mib] + Santa Lucía Monteverde [mdv]

Molinos

Itundujía [mce]

Yosondúa [mpm] + San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo [mig]

Yolotepec [xtt]

Teita [xtj]

Ethnologue notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua [xti] and Tijaltepec [xtl], are about as similar.

References

Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.

Macaulay, Monica.

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