Mazatec, Chiquihuitlán

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Mazateco de San Juan Chiquihuitlán, Mazateco del Sur

Hne naja, Nne nangui ngaxni

1,500 (2000 INALI). Total Mazatec speakers: 237,000 (2020 INEGI). 340 monolinguals.

Oaxaca state.

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6b (Threatened).

None known. 47% intelligibility of Huautla [mau] (most similar), 37% of Ayautla [vmy], 29% of Soyaltepec [vmp], 20% of Ixcatlán [mzi].

VSO (with fronting of S or O for focus); clitics, affixes; tonal.

Some of all ages. Also use Spanish [spa].

Literature. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1991.

Latin script [Latn].