| Ixcatec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Xwja | ||
| Spoken in | Oaxaca, Mexico | |
| Total speakers | 8[1] | |
| Language family | Oto-Manguean
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | cai | |
| ISO 639-3 | ixc | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ixcatec, also known as Xwja, is a language spoken by the people of the Mexican village of Santa María Ixcatlan, in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca. The Ixcatec language belongs to the Popolocan branch of the Oto-manguean linguistic family.
The number of speakers was given to be 119 in the early 1980s[2] , but according to the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, there were only 8 speakers of the language in 2008. [1]
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References
- Suárez, Jorge A. (1983). The Mesoamerican Indian Languages. Cambridge Languages Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22834-4. OCLC 8034800.
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