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  2. Mixtec - Wikipedia

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    The Mixtec people and their homelands are often subdivided into three geographic areas: The Mixteca Alta or Highland Mixtec living in the mountains in, around, and to the west of the Valley of Oaxaca; the Mixteca Baja or Lowland Mixtec living to the north and west of these highlands, and the Mixteca de la Costa or Coastal Mixtec living in the ...

  3. Mixtec culture - Wikipedia

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    The Mixtec culture (also called the Mixtec civilization) was a pre-hispanic archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people; they called themselves ñuu Savi (a name that their descendants still preserve), which means "people or nation of the rain".

  4. Mixtec languages - Wikipedia

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    The name "Mixteco" is a Nahuatl exonym, from mixtecatl, from mixtli [miʃ.t͡ɬi] ("cloud") + -catl ("inhabitant of place of"). [7] Speakers of Mixtec use an expression (which varies by dialect) to refer to their own language, and this expression generally means "sound" or "word of the rain": dzaha dzavui in Classical Mixtec; or "word of the people of the rain", dzaha Ñudzahui (Dzaha ...

  5. La Mixteca - Wikipedia

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    La Mixteca is a cultural, economic and political region in Western Oaxaca and neighboring portions of Puebla, Guerrero in south-central Mexico, which refers to the home of the Mixtec people. In their languages, the region is called either Ñuu Djau, Ñuu Davi or Ñuu Savi. Two-thirds of all Mixtecs live in the region, and the entire national ...

  6. Indigenous peoples of Oaxaca - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous people of Oaxaca are descendants of the inhabitants of what is now the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, who were present before the Spanish invasion. Several cultures flourished in the ancient region of Oaxaca from as far back as 2000 BC, of whom the Zapotecs and Mixtecs were perhaps the most advanced, with complex social organization ...

  7. Mixtecan languages - Wikipedia

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    They include the Trique (or Triqui) languages, spoken by about 24,500 people; Cuicatec, spoken by about 15,000 people; and the large expanse of Mixtec languages, spoken by about 511,000 people. [1] The relationship between Trique, Cuicatec, and Mixtec, is an open question.

  8. Category:Mixtec - Wikipedia

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    The Mixtec culture, peoples and languages of Mesoamerica. Particularly concerning the pre-Columbian era, but also inclusive of the post-conquest, colonial, and modern Mixtec history. The main article for this category is Mixtec .

  9. Category:Mexican people of Mixtec descent - Wikipedia

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