Silacayoapan Mixtec
Silacayoapan Mixtec is an Otomanguean language spoken in United States and Mexico. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Silacayoapan is one of the more extensive Mixtec languages. It is spoken by 150,000 people in Puebla and across the border in Guerrero, as well as by emigrants to the United States.
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Words in Silacayoapan Mixtec
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | 5aZivi* | |
| name | kivi* | |
| eye | ndiCini* | |
| ear | ho7o* | |
| nose | jiti* | |
| hand | nda7a* | |
| bone | Ziki* | |
| skin | ni* | |
| water | ticui̱í | |
| sun | kandi* | |
| star | kimi* | |
| stone | Zi* | |
| mountain | Ziki* | |
| tree | Zito* | |
| night | 5i* | |
| dog | tina* | |
| fish | Zaka* | |
| one | i* | |
| two | ivi* | |
| I | Ze7e* | |
| you | Zo7o* | |
| we | Zo* | |
| drink | 7i* | |
| see | ni* | |
| hear | niho7o* | |
| die | 7i* | |
| come | vaSi* | |
| path | iCi* | |
| new | sa* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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