Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec

Mixtec language of Oaxaca, Mexico

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew^[2] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

• San Esteban Atatláhuca [mib] + Santa Lucía Monteverde [mdv]
• Molinos
• Itundujía [mce]
• Yosondúa [mpm] + San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo [mig]
• Yolotepec [xtt]
• Teita [xtj]

Ethnologue notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua [xti] and Tijaltepec [xtl], are about as similar.

References

1. Atatláhuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Santa Lucía Monteverde at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Itundujía at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Yosondúa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   San Miguel el Grande at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   San Juan Teita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
2. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México

• Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.
• Macaulay, Monica. 1996. A grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec, University of California Publications in Linguistics. ISBN 0-520-09807-2.