Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people of southern Mexico whose civilization was overthrown by the Aztecs in the 1500s.
- noun A modern-day descendant of this people.
- noun Any of the related group of Oto-Manguean languages spoken by this people.
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- proper noun A
Mesoamerican people who lived in southernMexico before the rise of theAztecs . - proper noun A surviving descendant of this people.
- proper noun The
language of these people.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Another group of masks called chilolos, the word for mask in Mixtec, also predates Christianity.
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Another group of masks called chilolos, the word for mask in Mixtec, also predates Christianity.
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
NYT > Home Page By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN 2011
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Madera is a mecca for the state's estimated 120,000 indigenous Mexican-Indian farm workers, many of whom are from Oaxaca and speak a pre-Columbian language called Mixtec.
NYT > Home Page By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN 2011
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Of course, modern Nahuatl, Tzotlin, Mixtec, etc .... as well as Spanish, are not "pure" in the sense that they haven't changed since the 16th century.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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Of course, modern Nahuatl, Tzotlin, Mixtec, etc .... as well as Spanish, are not "pure" in the sense that they haven't changed since the 16th century.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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I toured the facilities of LFUPS and the nearby Mixtec elementary school.
Caitlin Hird: Teen Impact: Runner-Up #5 Caitlin Hird 2012
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Of course, modern Nahuatl, Tzotlin, Mixtec, etc .... as well as Spanish, are not "pure" in the sense that they haven't changed since the 16th century.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
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I toured the facilities of LFUPS and the nearby Mixtec elementary school.
Caitlin Hird: Teen Impact: Runner-Up #5 Caitlin Hird 2012
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Of course, modern Nahuatl, Tzotlin, Mixtec, etc .... as well as Spanish, are not "pure" in the sense that they haven't changed since the 16th century.
Dialect and Language discussion - pulled from another thread . . . 2009
chained_bear commented on the word Mixtec
Usage note re: Mixtec language can be found on Dahua Yitz.
October 6, 2017