Mixe languages

Mixe
Oaxacan Mixean
Ayuujk
Geographic
distribution
Oaxaca, Mexico
EthnicityMixe people
Native speakers
140,000 (2020 census)[1]
Linguistic classificationMixe–Zoque
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologoaxa1241
The Mixe region within the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico
PeopleAyuujkjä'äy (Mixe)
LanguageAyöök (Mixe)

The Mixe languages are languages of the Mixean branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico. According to a 1995 classification, there are seven of them (including one that is extinct). The four that are spoken in Oaxaca are commonly called Mixe while their two relatives spoken in Veracruz are commonly called "Popoluca", but sometimes also Mixe (these are "Oluta Popoluca" or "Olutec Mixe" and "Sayula Popoluca" or "Sayultec Mixe"). This article is about the Oaxaca Mixe languages, which their speakers call Ayöök, Ayuujk, Ayüük or Ayuhk.[citation needed]

Video on Mixe produced by UABJO

140,000 people reported their language to be "Mixe" in the 2020 census.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Diferentes lenguas indígenas". cuentame.inegi.org.mx. Retrieved 2022-07-02.