Chiquihuitlán Mazatec

Chiquihuitlán Mazatec
nne nangui ngaxni
Native toMexico
RegionChiquihuitlán de Benito Juárez, Oaxaca
Native speakers
1,502 (2010)
340 monolinguals (1990 census)
Oto-Manguean
Language codes
ISO 639-3maq
Glottologchiq1250
ELPChiquihuitlán Mazatec

Chiquihuitlán (endonym: nne nangui ngaxni [nẽ nãŋgi ŋgaʃnĩ]) is the most divergent variety of Mazatec, 47% intelligible with Huautla, the prestige variety, and even less intelligible with other Mazatecan languages. It's centered around the municipality of Chiquihuitlán de Benito Juárez, Oaxaca. In 2010, 1,502 total speakers were identified. In 2020, Chiquihuitlán de Benito Juárez had a population of 2,179, of which 1,042 were Mazatec speakers. Chiquihuitlán is spoken in an area that overlaps with Mixtec and Cuicatec speakers.