Midland Mixe (Ayüük)

Midland Mixe is a member of the Mixe branch of the Mixe-Zoque language family. It is spoken by about 8,090 people in the Sierra Mixe District in the Sierra Norte Region in the northeast of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.

Midland Mixe is also known Central Mixe, Chuxnabán Mixe or Mixe Alto del Sur. It is written with the Latin alphabet.

Midland Mixe alphabet

Notes

Long vowels are written doubled (aa)
The letters b, d, f, g, l, r and s are also used, but only in loanwords from Spanish.

Download an alphabet chart for Midland Mixe (Excel)

Some details provided by Wolfram Siegel

Sample video in Midland Mixe

Links

Information about Midland Mixe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_Mixe
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pxm
https://journals.dartmouth.edu/

Mixe languages

Isthmus Mixe, Midland Mixe, Oluta Popoluca, Sayula Popoluca, Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, Totontepec Mixe

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 13.09.22. Last modified: 13.09.22

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