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Tilantongo Mixtec

Tilantongo (Diuxi-Tilantongo) Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec. Numbers are declining due to emigration to the United States.

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Tilantongo Mixtec
Diuxi-Tilantongo Mixtec
Native toMexico
RegionOaxaca
Native speakers
(3,400 cited 2000)1
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3xtd
Glottologdiux1235

Tilantongo (Diuxi-Tilantongo) Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec. Numbers are declining due to emigration to the United States.

It is also called Central Nochistlán Mixtec, Diuxi-Tilantongo Mixtec, Mixteco de Diuxi-Tilantongo, and Mixteco del Este Central.1

References

References

  1. Tilantongo Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Further reading

Further reading

External links
  • Kuiper, Albertha; Joy Oram. "A Syntactic Sketch of Diuxi-Tilantongo Mixtec" (PDF). Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, Publication 105. Studies in the Syntax of Mixtecan Languages 3: 179–408. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  • Kuiper, Albertha; Velma Pickett (1974). "Personal pronouns in Diuxi Mixtec" (PDF). SIL Mexico Workpapers. pp. 53–58. Retrieved 2013-09-19.

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