The Mixtec culture was the main Mixtec civilization, which lasted from around 1500 BCE until being conquered by the Spanish in 1523. The Mixtec region...
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The Mixtec (/ˈmiːstɛk, ˈmiːʃtɛk/) languages belong to the Mixtecan group of the Oto-Manguean language family. Mixtec is spoken in Mexico and is closely...
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The Mixtec culture (also called the Mixtec civilization) was a pre-hispanic archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people;...
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Mixtec writing originated as a logographic writing system during the Post-Classic period in Mesoamerican history. Records of genealogy, historic events...
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Silacayoapan is one of the more extensive Mixtec languages. It is spoken by 150,000 people in Puebla and across the border in Guerrero, as well as by emigrants...
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Zacatepec Mixtec, or Tacuate, is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is spoken in the town of Santa María Zacatepec and other towns in Oaxaca, Mexico. It...
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Apoala Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec. Apoala Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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Indigenous people of Oaxaca (section Mixtec)
region of Oaxaca from as far back as 2000 BC, of whom the Zapotecs and Mixtecs were perhaps the most advanced, with complex social organization and sophisticated...
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Cacaloxtepec Mixtec, also Huajuapan Mixtec, is a Mixtec language spoken in the town of Santiago Cacaloxtepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. It is most intelligible...
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The Mixtec Group is the designation given by scholars to a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from the Mixtec people of the state of Oaxaca in the...
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Ñumí Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It may be closest to Peñasco Mixtec. Egland & Bartholomew found four dialects which have ca. 80% mutual...
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Nuyoo Mixtec, also known as Southwestern Tlaxiaco Mixtec, is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec, but its greatest...
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Estetla Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca. Egland & Bartholomew found four dialects which have about 75% mutual intelligibility with each other:...
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Sindihui Mixtec is a nearly extinct Mixtec language spoken in the town of Santa Maria Sindihui in Oaxaca. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec. It...
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The internal classification of Mixtec is controversial. Many varieties are mutually unintelligible and by that criterion separate languages. In the 16th...
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Mesoamerican writing systems (section Mixtec writing)
Mesoamerican writing include Classical Maya, Classical Nahuatl, Zapotec, Mixtec, and various other languages, particularly of the Oto-Manguean and Uto-Aztecan...
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Coatzospan Mixtec (Coatzóspam Mixtec) is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the town of San Juan Coatzospan. Consonants in parentheses are marginal...
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Nuxaá Mixtec, also known as Southeastern Nochixtlán Mixtec, is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca, dissimilar to other Mixtec languages. Nuxaá Mixtec at Ethnologue...
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Soyaltepec Mixtec is a moribund Mixtec language of Oaxaca spoken in the villages of San Bartolo Soyaltepec and Guadalupe Gabilera. It is not close to...
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other varieties of Mixtec. Ethnologue estimates 61% intelligibility of Ixtayutla Mixtec, and 50% of Pinotepa Mixtec. Tututepec Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th...
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Pinotepa Mixtec is a Mixtec language of southern Oaxaca. Ethnologue lists the variety of San Juan Colorado / San Pedro Atoyac as a separate language. Pinotepa...
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Ixtayutla Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. It is close to Chayuco and Zacatepec Mixtec. Ixtayutla Mixtec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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Cuatzoquitengo Mixtec is a possible Mixtec language of Guerrero. Ethnologue counts Cuatzoquitengo Mixtec as a dialect of Alacatlatzala Mixtec. However, Egland...
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Yoloxóchitl Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Guerrero. It is not close to other varieties of Mixtec. Yoloxóchitl Mixtec Language Documentation Project of...
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Chigmecatitlán Mixtec (also known as Southeast Puebla Mixtec, or dehe dau ['rain language'] by its speakers) is a Mixtec language of Puebla, Mexico, spoken...
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Chazumba Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Puebla and Oaxaca, spoken in the towns of Santiago Chazumba, San Pedro y San Pablo Tequixtepec, Zapotitlán, Santa...
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AD), Central Mexico was dominated by the Toltec culture, Oaxaca by the Mixtec, and the lowland Maya area had important centers at Chichén Itzá and Mayapán...
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Yucunicoco Mixtec is a Mixtec language of Oaxaca. Egland & Bartholomew found Yucunicoco to have only 50% intelligibility with Juxtlahuaca Mixtec. Comprehension...
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La Mixteca (redirect from Mixtec region)
the home of the Mixtec people. In their languages, the region is called either Ñuu Djau, Ñuu Davi or Ñuu Savi. Two-thirds of all Mixtecs live in the region...
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