Mixteco, or Mixtec, is not one language but a family of closely related Oto-Manguean varieties spoken by the Mixtec people of southern Mexico. Their homeland, La Mixteca, spans the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero and Puebla, and migration has carried Mixtec speakers to Mexico's northern agricultural regions and to the United States, especially California. Mexican census figures record around half a million speakers. The varieties are tonal, and differences between towns can be large enough that speakers from distant communities cannot understand one another, which is why linguists count dozens of separate Mixtec languages. Before the Spanish conquest the Mixtecs produced pictorial codices recording their history; today the languages are written in the Latin alphabet. Mixtec is recognised among Mexico's national indigenous languages.
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