Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec is a diverse Mixtec language of Oaxaca.

Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec
Native to	Mexico
Region	Oaxaca, Guerrero
Native speakers	(28,000 cited 1995–2010)^[1]
Language family	Oto-Manguean Mixtecan Mixtec Atatláhuca–San Miguel Mixtec
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: mib – Atatláhuca mdv – Santa Lucía Monteverde mce – Itundujía mpm – Yosondúa mig – San Miguel el Grande xtj – San Juan Teita xtl – Tijaltepec xti – Sinicahua xtt – Tacahua (Yolotepec)
Glottolog	west2824  partial match
ELP	Western Alta Mixtec (partial match)

Dialects

Egland & Bartholomew^[2] found six dialects (with > ≈80% internal intelligibility) which had about 70% mutual intelligibility with each other:

• San Esteban Atatláhuca [mib] + Santa Lucía Monteverde [mdv]
• Molinos
• Itundujía [mce]
• Yosondúa [mpm] + San Miguel el Grande + Chalcatongo [mig]
• Yolotepec [xtt]
• Teita [xtj]

Ethnologue notes that two additional varieties Egland & Bartholomew had not looked at, Sinicahua [xti] and Tijaltepec [xtl], are about as similar.

References

1. Atatláhuca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Santa Lucía Monteverde at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Itundujía at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Yosondúa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   San Miguel el Grande at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   San Juan Teita at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
2. Egland & Bartholomew (1983) La Inteligibilidad Interdialectal en México

• Alexander, Ruth Mary. 1980. Gramática mixteca de Atatláhuca. Gramática yuhu sasau jee cahan ñayuu San Esteban Atatláhuca. Instituto Lingüístico de Verano. México. Series: Gramáticas de Lenguas Indígenas de México; 2.
• Macaulay, Monica. 1996. A grammar of Chalcatongo Mixtec, University of California Publications in Linguistics. ISBN 0-520-09807-2.