16 Facts About Mixtec languages

Mixtec languages belong to the Mixtecan group of the Oto-Manguean language family.

Mixtec languages is spoken in Mexico and is closely related to Trique and Cuicatec.

Traditional range of the Mixtec languages is the region known as La Mixteca, which is shared by the states of Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero.

The number of varieties of Mixtec languages depends in part on what the criteria are for grouping them, of course; at one extreme, government agencies once recognized no dialectal diversity.

The varieties of Mixtec have functioned as de facto separate languages for hundreds of years with virtually none of the characteristics of a single "language".

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One of the most characteristic features of Mixtec is its use of tones, a characteristic it shares with all other Otomanguean languages.

In some varieties of Mixtec languages, tone is used grammatically since the vowels or whole syllables with which they were associated historically have been lost.

Nasalisation of vowels and consonants in Mixtec languages is an interesting phenomenon that has had various analyses.

In recent decades small changes in the alphabetic representation of Mixtec languages have been put into practice by the Academy of the Mixtec languages Language.

Third person pronouns, Mixtec languages has several pronouns that indicate whether the referent is a man, a woman, an animal, a child or an inanimate object, a sacred or divine entity, or water.

The basic form of the Mixtec languages verb is the future tense, and many conjugated future verb forms are used for the present tense.

Mixtec languages has few nouns for abstract ideas; when they do not exist, it uses verbal constructions instead.

Some Mixtec languages distinguish two such demonstratives, others three, and some four .

Spanish words used in Mixtec languages are those that were brought by the Spanish like some fruits and vegetables.

Four Mixtec languages codices are known to survive, narrating the war exploits of the Lord Eight Deer Jaguar Claw.

The key to deciphering these codices was rediscovered only in the mid-20th century, largely through the efforts of Alfonso Caso, as the Mixtec languages people had lost the understanding of their ancient rules of reading and writing.