Jalapa Mazatec

Jalapa Mazatec
Ndaxjò
Native toOaxaca, Mexico
RegionSan Felipe Jalapa de Díaz
Native speakers
18,000 (2000)[1]
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3maj
Glottologjala1237
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Jalapa Mazatec is a Mazatecan language. An estimate from 1990 suggested it was spoken by 15,000 people, one-third of whom are monolingual, in 13 villages in the vicinity of the town of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz in the Tuxtepec District of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. A 2016 study, published in 2019, estimated the Mazatec dialects to have 220,000 speakers.[2] Egland (1978) found 73% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec.[1] Literacy in Jalapa is taught alongside Spanish in local schools.

  1. ^ a b Jalapa Mazatec at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Léonard JL, Patriarca M, Heinsalu E, Sharma K, Chakraborti A (12 January 2019). "Patterns of Linguistic Diffusion in Space and Time: The Case of Mazatec". Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences: 339–170. arXiv:1612.02994. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_9. ISBN 978-3-030-04596-8.