The Mixe-Zoque languages are a family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, across the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco and Veracruz. The Mexican government recognizes three languages, Mixe with about 188,000 speakers, Zoque with about 88,000, and Popoluca with about 69,000, though Glottolog identifies as many as 19 distinct languages within the family. The languages are typologically head-marking and polysynthetic, with complex verb morphology showing ergative alignment and direct-inverse marking based on animacy.
Facts
Partially Attested
Speaker CountConfirmed: the three Mexican-government-recognized Mixe-Zoquean languages (Mixe, Zoque, Popoluca) total about 345,000 speakers. Open: Glottolog counts 19 languages in the family, so speakers of the remaining languages are not included in this figure. RegionIsthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 1 Proto-Language StatusProto-Mixe-Zoquean phonology has been reconstructed by Wichmann (1995) 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Mixe-Zoque Languages
WikipediaWikipedia, Mixe-Zoque languages, introduction
the Mixe-Zoque (also Mixe-Zoquean, Mije-Soke, Mije-Sokean) languages are a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.
Wikipedia, Mixe-Zoque languages, introduction, official-language speaker counts
The Mexican government recognizes three distinct Mixe-Zoquean languages as official: Mixe or ayook with 188,000 speakers, Zoque or o'de püt with 88,000 speakers, and the Popoluca languages of which some are Mixean and some Zoquean with 69,000 speakers.
Wikipedia, Mixe-Zoque languages, section Phonology
The phoneme inventory of Proto-Mixe-Zoquean as reconstructed by Wichmann (1995) can be seen to be relatively simple
View the Source Wikidata: Mixe-Zoque
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