Cuicatec is an Oto-Manguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico.

They inhabit two towns: Teutila and Tepeuxila in western Oaxaca.

[3] The name Cuicatec is a Nahuatl exonym, from [ˈkʷika] 'song' [ˈteka] 'inhabitant of place of'.

[4] Cuicatec-language programming is carried by the CDI's radio station XEOJN, based in San Lucas Ojitlán, Oaxaca.

The Santa Maria Papalo dialect contains six vowel sounds both oral and nasal: Allophones of the following sounds /β ð ɣ n j t tʃ/ include [b d ɡ~x ŋ j̈ θ ʃ], respectively.