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Silacayoapan Mixtec

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Silacayoapan Mixtec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca, Guerrero
Native speakers	(150,000 in Mexico cited 1990–2011)^[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Mixtecan Mixtec Silacayoapan–Cacaloxtepec Silacayoapan Mixtec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: `mks` – Silacayoapan `mxb` – Tezoatlán `vmc` – Juxtlahuaca `mim` – Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache) `mxv` – Metlatónoc (San Rafael) `xta` – Alcozauca `jmx` – Coicoyán (Western Juxtlahuaca) `mxa` – Portezuelo (Northwest Oaxaca)
Glottolog	`cent2266` Central Baja Mixtec `sout3179` Southern Baja Mixtec `guer1245` Guerrero Mixtec `tezo1238` Tezoatlan Mixtec
ELP	Central Baja Mixtec
	Guerrero Mixtec^[2]
	Tezoatlan Mixtec^[3]
	Southern Baja Mixtec (shared)^[4]

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 to the United States.

Dialects[edit]

Egland & Bartholomew^[5] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

Metlatónoc (Metlatónoc, San Rafael, Tlacoachistlahuaca, Cochoapa), Alcozauca (Alcozauca, Xochapa, Petlacalancingo)
Portezuelo (Santos Reyes Yucuná, Guadalupe Portezuelo, San Simón Zahuatlán)
Coicoyán (San Martín Peras Cuatzoquitengo, Río Frijol, Santa Cruz Yucucani, San José Yoxocaño, Malvabisco, Rancho Limón, Río Aguacate, Boca de Mamey)
(varieties within ≈75% of Silacayoapan proper)
- Juxtlahuaca (San Sebastián Tecomaxtlahuaca, San Miguel Tlacotepec, Santos Reyes Tepejillo, Santa María Tindú, San Martín Duraznos)
- Alacatlatzala (Alacatlatzala, Cahuatache, Tenaztalcingo, Jilotepec, Zacatipa, Tototepec, Cuba Libre, San Isidro Labrador, Quiahuitlatlatzala, Xonacatlán, Tepecocatlán, Cuautipa, Ocuapa, Potoichan)
- Silacayoapan
  - Silacayoapan proper (Santo Domingo Tonalá, San Jorge Nuchita)
  - Tezoatlán (Yucuquimi de Ocampo, San Andrés Yutatío, Yucuñuti de Benito Juárez, San Juan Diquiyú, San Marcos de Garzón, San Martín del Río, Santa Catarina Yotandú, San Isidro de Zaragoza, San Valentín de Gomez)
  - (other towns) Ixpantepec Nieves, Santiago Tamazola, Atenango, San Miguel Ahuehuetitlán

Ethnologue counts (Santa María) Yucunicoco Mixtec with Juxtlahuaca Mixtec. However, Egland & Bartholomew found it to have only 50% intelligible with Juxtlahuaca. Comprehension of Mixtepec is 85%, but in the other direction only 45%.

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k kʷ	ʔ
Plosive	prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑɡ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ	x
Fricative	voiced	β	ð	ʒ
Approximant			l	j
Rhotic			ɾ

Vowels[edit]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ʉ	u ũ
Close-Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Open		a ã

^[6]^[7]

References[edit]

^ SilacayoapanatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
TezoatlánatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
JuxtlahuacaatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Alacatlatzala (Cahuatache)atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Metlatónoc (San Rafael)atEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
AlcozaucaatEthnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
(Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)

^ Endangered Languages Project data for Guerrero Mixtec.

^ Endangered Languages Project data for Tezoatlan Mixtec.

^ Endangered Languages Project data for Southern Baja Mixtec (shared).

^ Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México

^ North and Shields, 1977. pp. 21-39

^ Shields 1988.

Sources[edit]

Shields, Jäna K. 1988. A syntactic sketch of Silacayoapan Mixtec. In C. Henry Bradley & Barbara E. Hollenbach (eds.) Studies in the syntax of Mixtecan languages, vol. 1. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics; [Arlington:] University of Texas at Arlington, pp. 305–449.
Tezoatlán Mixtec (SIL-Mexico)