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Oaxaca Mixean
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''. 140,000 people reported their language to be "Mixe" in the 2020 census. Classification Oaxaca Mixe languages are spoken in the Sierra Mixe of eastern Oaxaca. These four languages are: North Highland Mixe, spoken around Totontepec (the most divergent); South Highland Mixe, spoken around Santa María Tlahuitoltepec, Ayutla and Tamazulapan); Midland Mixe, spoken around Juquila and Zacatepec; and ...
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Oaxaca
Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 municipalities, of which 418 (almost three quarters) are governed by the system of (customs and traditions) with recognized local forms of self-governance. Its capital city is Oaxaca City, Oaxaca de Juárez. Oaxaca is in southern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Guerrero to the west, Puebla to the northwest, Veracruz to the north, and Chiapas to the east. To the south, Oaxaca has a significant coastline on the Pacific Ocean. The state is best known for #Indigenous peoples, its indigenous peoples and cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotec peoples, Zapotecs and the Mixtecs, but 16 are officially recognized. These cultures have survived better than most others in Mexico due to the state's rugged and isolating terrain. M ...
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North Highland Mixe
Totontepec Mixe, called North Highland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico, in the town of Totontepec Villa de Morelos, Oaxaca. Phonology Mixe phonology is notable due to its complex system of vowel duration contrasts in addition to glottalization. There is a palatalized series of all consonant phonemes (as in Russian, or Irish) and possibly a fortis/lenis distinction in the plosive series, the recognition of which however is obscured by a tendency towards allophonic voicing of consonants in voiced environments. Consonants /β, βʲ/ are heard as glides , wʲin other dialects. Palatalized sounds /tsʲ, nʲ/ can also have allophones as ʃ, ɲin free variation. Sounds /p, t̪, k/ occur as ², d̪, É¡in intervocalic position Vowels Syllable nuclei vary in length and phonation. Most descriptions report three contrastive Vowel length, vowel lengths. The other types of phonation have been variously termed checked vowels, creaky voice vowels and ...
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Mazatlán Mixe
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca. Grammar Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order. It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head. Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating. Phonology Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization Palatalization may refer to: *Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation *Palatalization (sound change) Palatalization ( ) is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulati .... See also * Norman Nordell'Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary(1990) published by SIL References Mixean languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub ...
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North Central Mixe
Midland a.k.a. Central Mixe is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. According to Wichmann (1995), there are two groups of dialects: ;North: Jaltepec, Puxmetecán, Atitlán, Matamoros, Cotzocón ;South: Juquila, Cacalotepec ''Ethnologue'' lists Mixistlán as well, but Wichmann counts that as Tlahuitoltepec Mixe. A new variety of Midland Mixe has been recently documented in the village of San Juan Bosco Chuxnabá in San Miguel Quetzaltepec municipality, Oaxaca Oaxaca, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca, is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of the Mexico, United Mexican States. It is divided into municipalities of Oaxaca, 570 munici ... by Carmen Jany and other linguists. Phonology Orthography from Jany (2011) is in angle brackets where it differs from IPA. Consonants Spanish loanwords contain eight additional phonemes: . Vowels , , and are marginal vowels. and only occur as allophones of and , ...
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San Juan Guichicovi
San Juan Guichicovi is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Juchitán District in the west of the Istmo de Tehuantepec region. The town was founded on 15 March 1825: Guichicovi means "New Town" in Zapotec. Geography The municipality covers an area of 563.91 km2 at an elevation of 260 meters above sea level. The climate is warm and humid with rain in summer and autumn. Flora and fauna Flora include cassava, mahogany, cedar, oak, ceiba, spring, passion, locust, pine, Nopo, oak stand, cedrillo, orange and mamey. Wild fauna include Tepeizcuinte, armadillo, deer, badgers, skunks, boar and toucan. Demography As of 2005, the municipality had 7,120 households with a total population of 27,646 of whom 19,367 spoke an indigenous language. The municipality is the farthest east of the Mixe communities of Oaxaca. The houses have concrete or dirt floors, concrete or masonry walls and concrete, metal or tile roofs. The town is connected by a pav ...
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Lowland Mixe
Isthmus Mixe, called Lowland Mixe in Wichmann (1995), is a Mixe language spoken in Mexico. It is spoken in the villages of Coatlán San José el Paraíso, Mazatlán, Guichicovi, and Camotlán, Oaxaca. Grammar Isthmus Mixe is SOV word order. It contains prepositions and postpositions, genitives and demonstratives before noun heads, and relative clauses after the head. Isthmus Mixe is usually categorized as agglutinating. Phonology Dieterman believes every consonant may be modified by the addition of secondary palatalization Palatalization may refer to: *Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation *Palatalization (sound change) Palatalization ( ) is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulati .... See also * Norman Nordell'Isthmus Mixe to Spanish dictionary(1990) published by SIL References Mixean languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub ...
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Zacatepec
Zacatepec Fútbol Club is a Mexican professional football club based in Zacatepec, Morelos, that competes in Liga Premier, the third level division of Mexican football. Founded in 1948 as Club Social y Deportivo Zacatepec by workers of the Mexican sugar mill called ''Emiliano Zapata''. Throughout its history it was also named as Promotora Deportiva Zacatepec SC, Zacatepec 1948, Zacatepec Siglo XXI and Club Atlético Zacatepec. The club was refounded on July 21, 2024 under its current name. Nicknamed ''Cañeros'' (sugarcane growers). Their colors are white and green (from sugar and sugarcane, respectively). Their uniform color is a white shirt with a big green line in the middle and white shorts and socks. The head coach of Zacatepec during the 1950s was Ignacio Trelles, a former professional Mexican football player who became head coach of the Mexico national team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile and 1966 FIFA World Cup in England. History The club dates back to the ear ...
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Juquila
Santa Catarina Juquila is a town in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, and is the seat of the municipality also called Santa Catarina Juquila. It is part of the Juquila District in the center of the Costa Region. The name "Juquila" comes from "Xuhquililla", which means "Place of blue milkweed". Geography The total area of the municipality is 811.42 km2 in rugged terrain in the foothills of the Sierra Madre del Sur. The climate is temperate humid, with maximum temperatures of 20 Â°C, minimum 12 Â°C and average 16 Â°C.. Annual rainfall is 854 mm, higher from May to September and lower from October to April. Trees include pine, oak, mahogany, cedar, oak, coral, topehuaje, blackwood, ebony, jacaranda and ash. Fruit trees include orange, lemon, mamey, banana, pomegranate and guava. Wild fauna are deer, badgers, iguana and armadillo. Town The town has a population of 5,579 inhabitants and is at an altitude of 1,462 meters above sea level. It is located north of Pue ...
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San Pedro Y San Pablo Ayutla
San Pedro y San Pablo Ayutla is a town and municipality in Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. It is part of the Sierra Mixe The Sierra Mixe or Mixes District is a district in the east of the Sierra Norte Region of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It comprises 17 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corp ... district within the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca Region. Geography The municipality covers an area of at an altitude of above sea level. The climate is temperate to cool, with warmer micro-regions in the lowlands and ravines. The rainy season begins in May and ends in October with drizzle in the rest of the year. The average temperature is , varying from a maximum of to a minimum of . Forest cover is pine-oak. Population As of 2005, the municipality had 1,014 households with a total population of 4,319 of whom 3,639 spoke an indigenous language. The main economic activity is logging. File:Cerro de la cruz ayutla.jp ...
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