Mixtec, Ayutla

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A language of Mexico

ISO 639-3
miy
Alternate Names
Coastal Guerrero Mixtec, Libres Mixtec, Mixteco de Ayutla, Mixteco de Ayutla de los Libres, Tu’un savi
Autonym
Tu̱n savi̱ꞌ Tu̱tyoo̱ꞌ
User Population

11,600 (2000 INALI). Total Mixtec speakers: 527,000 (2020 INEGI). 3,000 monolinguals.

Location

Guerrero state: Ayutla and scattered in about 30 mountain towns.

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Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification
Otomanguean, Eastern Otomanguean, Amuzgo-Mixtecan, Mixtecan, Mixtec
Dialects

None known. Lexical similarity: 30% with Metlatónoc [mxv] and Yoloxóchitl [xty]; 5% with San Juan Colorado [mjc], Silacayoapan [mks], and Santa Maria Zacatepec [mza]. Considered a Mixtec isolate with a large number of words unlike other variants.

Typology

VSO; prepositions.

Language Use

Home, work. Used by all. Also use Spanish [spa].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Literature. Videos. NT: 2016.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Mixtec, Ayutla
Writing

Latin script [Latn].