Cuyamecalco Mixtec Explained

Cuyamecalco Mixtec
Also Known As:Cuicatlán Mixtec
States:Mexico
Region:Cuicatlán, Oaxaca
Date:2000
Ref:e18
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Oto-Manguean
Fam2:Mixtecan
Fam3:Mixtec
Fam4:Coatzospan–Cuyamecalco
Dia1:Santa Ana Cuauhtémoc
Iso3:xtu
Glotto:cuya1240
Glottorefname:Cuyamecalco Mixtec
Elp:10533
Elpname:Northern Alta Mixtec (shared)

Cuyamecalco Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in Cuyamecalco, San Miguel Santa Flor, and Santa Ana Cuauhtémoc. Egland & Bartholomew[1] had found Cuauhtémoc to be more intelligible with Coatzospan Mixtec, which in any case is close to Cuyamecalco.

Notes and References

  1. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México