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The branches of the Mixe-Zoque languages are as follows:

# Mixe -- an estimated 90,000 native speakers
  • Eastern Mixe

    • #::An estimated 72,000 native speakers

#::Dialects: Coatlán (mco), Istmo (mir), Quetzaltepec (mve), Juquila (mxq), and Mazatlán (mzl)
  • Veracruz Mixe

    • #::An estimated 4,000 native speakers

#::Dialects: Oluta (plo) nearly extinct - only 100 speakers, Sayula (pos)
#::Sometimes classified as Popoluca languages
  • Western Mixe

    • #::An estimated 10,000 native speakers

#::Dialects Totontepec (mto), Tlahuitoltepec (mxp)
# Zoque -- an estimated 60,000 native speakers
  • Chiapas Zoque

    • #::An estimated 22,000 native speakers

#::Dialects: Copainalá (zoc), Rayón (zor), Francisco León (zos)
  • Oaxaca Zoque

    • #::An estimated 4,500 native speakers

#::Dialect: Chimalapa (zoh)
  • Veracruz Zoque

    • #::An estimated 30,000 native speakers

#::Dialects: Highland (poi), Texistepec (poq) nearly extinct - only 450 speakers, Tabasco (zoq) nearly extinct - only 40 speakers
#::Both Highland and Texistepec are sometimes classified as Popoluca languages
#::Highland is also known as Sierra

The codes after the dialect names are from ISO/DIS.

Extinct languages classified as Mixe-Zoquean include Tapachultec, formerly spoken along the southeast coast of Chiapas. Some linguists believe the Olmec people spoke a Mixe-Zoquean language.


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