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"Textual and Lexical Documentation of Ixcatec, a highly endangered Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico" HRELP Abstract
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Critically Endangered

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9

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2009

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Santa Maria Ixcatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico

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Spanish

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Ixcatec, also known as Xwja, is a language spoken in Santa María Ixcatlan, in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca ... according to the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, there were only 8 speakers of the language in 2008.

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Mexico;

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Santa María Ixcatlan, in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca.

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Santa María Ixcatlan, in the northern part of the state of Oaxaca.

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Severely Endangered

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2010

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17.8493,-97.181

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from J. Suárez (1983).

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2009

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Mexico;

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2005

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17.8333333333,-97.1666666667

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. "Textual and Lexical Documentation of Ixcatec, a highly endangered Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico" HRELP Abstract
    Costaouec, Denis. 2009. ""Textual and Lexical Documentation of Ixcatec, a Highly Endangered Otomanguean Language of Oaxaca, Mexico" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=228.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=228
  5. Ixcatec languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixcatec_language.
  6. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  7. The World Atlas of Language Structures
    2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
  8. Diccionario Ixcateco
    Fernandez De miranda, M. Teresa. 1961. "Diccionario Ixcateco." Intituto Nacional de Antropologia e História.